I'm a master's student in the Russian and Slavic Studies program at NYU. My current research explores the living dead in post-Soviet literature. I'm also interested in the grotesque, postmodernism and late Nabokov.
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Lisa Filimonova
- Vsia khol' evreiskogo naroda: interviiu s pisatelem Borisom Leibovym
- "Humanity has enough problems as it is. Why did you decide to unleash zombies on us?It was all conceived as satire. Since we all grew up on zombie horror — a zombie is something ragged and terrifying,...
- V promezhutke
- "The book’s best novella is Khol'. It is also the most merciless towards people. The resurrection of the dead is a problem, a calamity, a source of annoyance, revulsion, necrocide. But the characters ...
- Mertvets ispugalsia: knigi nedeli
- "Boris Leibov’s new book is a mosaic of standalone short stories, united, you might say, by the motif of fragility, or even the illusory nature of our notion of life and death, the living and the dead...
- Sushchestvovat naedine s soboi
- "Boris Leibov is a master of complex and lyrical prose, and this is not his first book devoted to love. Nevertheless, with each new book, Leibov sheds an old version of himself. The novella, Fiamet, i...