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Yuri Leving
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-4353
Tel: (323) 512-6068
e-mail: leving@usc.edu

 

BOOK:

Train Station – Garage – Hangar: (Vladimir Nabokov and Poetics of Russian Urbanism)/[“Vokzal – Garazh – Angar. V. Nabokov i Poetika russkogo urbanizma”].St. Petersburg: Ivan Limbakh Publishing House, 400 pp., illustrations, cloth, 2004.
ISBN: 5-89059-057-X.

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AWARDS:

REVIEWS OF THIS EDITION

1. A. Balakin. “The Union of Word and Iron” // Sankt-Peterburgskie vedomosti. September 29, 2004.
2. Ian Levchenko. “To Make it Expensive and Tasty” // Russian Journal. Peterburgskie tirazhi. December 3, 2004.
3. K. Reshetnikov. “Perepisyvaia nabelo. Obiavlen short-list premii Andreia Belogo” // Gazeta. November 3, 2004.
4. M. Trofimenkov. “Incest and Militarism. The Andrey Bely Literary Award short-list has been announced” // Kommersant. # 207. Thursday, November 4, 2004.
5. D. Davydov. “Nabokov. Train Station – Garage – Hangar” // The Book Review [Knizhnoe obozrenie] December 13, 2004.
6. G. Amelin. “About temperature of coronal bone. Y. Leving’s Train Station – Garage – Hangar” // Russian Journal [Russkii zhurnal]. January 31, 2005.
7. M. Malikova. “Nabokov today. Review of the new books on Nabokov: Books by Yuri Leving, Alexander Dolinin, Brian Boyd” // NLO [New Literary Review], # 70, 2005.
8. Y. Isahaia. Review of Yuri Leving’s Book “Train Station – Garage – Hangar” // Krug. The Newsletter of The Nabokov Japanese Society, Tokyo, No. III (8), 2005.
9. Stephen H. Blackwell. Yuri Leving. Vokzal-Garazh-Angar: Vladimir Nabokov i poetika russkogo urbanizma // 50th anniversary of LOLITA issue of Nabokov Studies # 9, 2005: LO at 50.


Book in Progress:

Imperia N. Nabokov i nasledniki. Editor of the volume of articles by Western and Russian scholars. Under contract for NLO Publishing House, 2005.

Scholarly Works Published in Peer Reviewed Journals:

1. Phantom in Jerusalem: Or, the History of an Unrealized Visit // The Nabokovian, 37, 1996 Fall, pp. 30-44.

2. Samuel Izrailevich: Pnin's Character, Nabokov's Friend // The Nabokovian. 39, 1997 Fall, pp. 13-17.

3. To Slay the Dragon: St. George Complex in Nabokov’s Story “Spring in Fialta” // Russian Language Journal. East Lansing, MI (RLJ). 52:171-173, 1998 Winter-Spring-Fall, pp. 159-78.

4. Awl and Needle: Erofeev’s “Moskva-Petushki” and Pushkin’s “Zolotoi petushok” // Wiener Slawistischer Almanach. Vienna, Austria (WSlA). 42, 1998, 42, 175-87.

5. A Pattern of Eternity: Pushkin and Nabokov as Artists // Pushkin and Nabokov. St. Petersburg, Russia. 1999, pp. 237-255.

6. Notes on Vladimir Nabokov’s Hundredth Anniversary // Our Scopus. Jerusalem. 17, 1999, pp. 4-6.

7. V. Nabokov in Jerusalem (The Journey That Never Happened) // Jews and Slavs: Jerusalem in Slavic Culture. (Ed. by: Moskovich, etc.). Ljubljana: Scientific-Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts; Jerusalem: Hebrew University, 1999, Vol. 6. pp. 373-387.

8. Body and Motifs of Detachment of Flesh in Russian Literature // Our Scopus. 16, 1999, pp. 11-14.

9. Nabokov Next Door // Jerusalem Review. Jerusalem, Israel. 1999, 2, 142-160.

10. The Mystery of Nabokov’s Literary Addressees: Gaito Gazdanov’s Case // Nabokov’s Review. St. Petersburg, Russia. 4, 1999, pp. 75-90.

11. Vladimir Nabokov and Sasha Chernyi // Literary Review. [Literaturnoe Obozrenie]. Russia. 1999, 1 (277), pp. 52-56.

12. Nabokov's Mary // The Explicator. Washington, DC (Expl). 1999 Fall, 58:1, 39-42.

13. Literary Subtexts of the Palestinian Letter of V. Nabokov // New Review (New York). 1999 March, 214, pp. 116-33.

14. Department of Russian and Slavic Studies of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem: History of Creation // Moskovich-Wolf (ed.). Jews and Slavs: Jews and Eastern Slavs Essays on Intercultural Relations. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Institute of Jewish Studies; Jerusalem-Kyiv. Vol. 7., 2000, pp. 301-313.

15. “To Write Articles on Oblomov and Weather Conditions” (Vladimir Zhabotinsky and Izrail Rozov) // The Solar Plexus, Moscow-Jerusalem. 14-15, 2000, pp. 245-251.

16. Six Notes to "The Gift" // The Nabokovian, Lawrence, KS. 45, 2000 Fall, pp. 36-41.

17. V. Nabokov's Palestinian Letter of 1937 // V. V. Nabokov: Pro et contra, Vol. 2 (2001), St. Petersburg: Russian Christian State Institute, pp. 12-33.

18. “In your books you continue to submerge yourself into icy depth”: An Unknown 1936 Letter of S. I. Rozov to V. V. Nabokov // The Other Shore: Russian Writers Abroad Past and Present, Toronto, Canada, Vol. 1 (2001), pp. 39-46. [Republication]. Co-authored with M. D. Shrayer.

19. The Railway Mythology of V. Nabokov // The Plexus, Moscow-Jerusalem. 18-19, 2001, pp. 231-240.

20. Vladimir Nabokov and Sasha Chernyi // Old Literary Review. [Staroe Literaturnoe Obozrenie]. Russia. 2001, 1 (277), pp. 52-56. [Republication].

21. An Unknown 1936 Letter of S.I. Rozov to V.V. Nabokov. // The Plexus, Moscow-Jerusalem. 2001, 16-17, pp. 199-205. Co-authored with M. D. Shrayer.

22. Encounters with Nabokov (The Writer in his Swiss period)” // Windows (Literary journal), Tel-Aviv. 5, 2001, pp. 10-12.

23. Vladimir Nabokov’s Japan // Circle (The Nabokov Society Japan Newsletter), Japan. Vol. II (2), 2001, pp. 1-9. [In translation to Japanese]

24. In the House of Fools: The Songs of Innocence and Experience (E. Fanailova’s Poem on Afghanistan and Chechnya)” // New Literary Review [Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie], 62, Moscow. August, 2003, pp. 114-128.

25. Five Notes on Nabokov’s Works // ZEMBLA: The on-line resource of the Arts & Humanities Library of The Pennsylvania State University Libraries. See: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/leving1.htm

26. One Day in Life of Alexander Nikolaevich. From an Unpublished A. Benois’ Diary. Publication, introduction and commentary. // New Literary Review [Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie], 58, 2002, Moscow, pp. 127-139.

27. The Notes of Latecomers. From the book “A Personal File” // The Plexus, Moscow-Jerusalem, 22-23, 2002, pp. 226-237.

28. Zina’s Dress: Made in… // The Nabokovian, Lawrence, KS. 48, Spring 2002, pp. 8-10.

29. The William Tell Complex in Literature // The Nabokovian. Lawrence, KS. 48, Spring 2002, p. 10.

30. “Come serve the Muse and merge in verse...” // The Nabokovian, Lawrence, KS. 48, Spring 2002, pp. 11-12.

31. The Dead Can Dance // The Nabokovian. Lawrence, KS. 48, Spring 2002, p. 13.

32. Some Reasons for Prof. Pnin to Hate Dr. Bogolepov // The Nabokovian, Lawrence, KS. 48, Spring 2002, pp. 13-14.

33. Metaphysics of the Garage: Nabokov’s Automobile Aesthetics // Proceedings of the international Nabokov conference in St. Petersburg, Russia.

34. Nabokov Close By // Jewish Bookkeeper. 2, 2003, pp. 56-69.

35. The Everyday Petersburg in A. Benois’ 1917 Diary // The Image of St. Petersburg in World Culture. Ed. by V. Bagno. Petersburg: Nauka; Russian Academy of Sciences; Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House). 2003, pp. 551-565.

36. An Incident at the Station (Babel, Sobol, Tsvetaeva and others) // The Star [Zvezda], Saint Petersburg monthly literary journal, Russia. 7 (July). 2004, pp. 156-161.

37. Filming Nabokov: On Visual Poetics of the Text // Russian Studies in Literature, Summer 2004 (Vol 40, No. 3), pp. 6-31.

38. The Motif of the Path and Nostalgia for Russia // +(972). Putevodnoe prilozhenie. St. Petersburg, No. 5 (February), 2005, pp. 10-11.

 

Scholarly Works – Contribution to Book Chapter

39. Tenishev Students Vladimir Nabokov, Osip Mandel'shtam and Samuil Rozov: Intersections // Russian Jewry Abroad: Articles, Publications, Memoirs and Essays. (Parkhomovsky, M., Ed.). Jerusalem, Israel. I (VI), 1998, pp. 141-62.

40. Commentary [Stories from “Spring in Fialta”. Poems] // V. Nabokov. Russian period. Selected Works in 5 volumes. St. Petersburg: Simpozium, 1999, V. 2, pp. 717-745.

41. On Transformations of Pushkin’s “Sculptural Myth” in Josef Brodsky’s Poetry // After Jubilee. (Ed. by: Schwarzband, S.; Timenchik, R.). Jerusalem: The Center for the Study of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the Hebrew University, 2000.

42. Commentary [Stories from “Spring in Fialta”. Stories from “The Eye”] // V. Nabokov. Russian period. Selected Works in 5 volumes. St. Petersburg: Simpozium, 2000, Vol. 3, pp. 779-826.

43. Commentary [Stories from “The Eye”] // V. Nabokov. Russian period. Selected Works in 5 volumes. St. Petersburg: Simpozium, 2000, Vol. 4, pp. 769-778.

44. Commentary [“The Enchanter”] // V. Nabokov. Russian period. Selected Works in 5 volumes. St. Petersburg: Simpozium, 2000, Vol. 5, pp. 652-658.

45. Rumble of Non-existence (V. Nabokov and F. Sologub) // V. V. Nabokov: Pro et contra, Vol. 2 (2001), St. Petersburg, Russian Christian State Institute, pp. 499-519.

46. Love in the Automobile (Towards Urbanization of Intimate Spaces) // Erotizm bez beregov [Eros in Russian Literature]. Volume of articles. Ed. by M. Pavlova. Moscow: NLO, 2004, pp. 242-254.

47. “Three Pairs of Silk Stockings”: V. Nabokov and P. Romanov // Nabokov anthology. The Institute of World Literature [IMLI], Moscow, Russia. Forthcoming in 2005.

48. “Y. Trifonov’s The House on the Embankment// New Literary Review [Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie], 81, Moscow. Forthcoming in 2005.

49. Vladimir Nabokov and Russian Postmodernist Fiction // Empire N: Nabokov and Contemporary Popular Culture. Moscow, NLO. Forthcoming in 2005.

Review Articles

50. [Review of] Joseph G. Kickasola. The Films of Krzysztof Kieslowski: The Liminal Image. New York: Continuum, 2004. 332 pp. // Slavic and East European Journal, Summer 2005 (Vol. 49, No. 2), pp. 329-330.

51. [Review of] The Cambridge Companion to Nabokov. Ed. by Julian W. Connolly. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.262 pp. // Russian Review, Winter 2005 (forthcoming).

52. [Review of the issue] Wiener Slawistischer Almanach. Gesellschaft zur Förderung Slawistischer Studien (Wien). Band 48. 2001. 270 pp. SEEJ, 47.2 // Slavic and East European Journal), Winter 2003 (Vol. 47, No. 4), pp. 698-699.

53. [Review of book of articles] “Ocherki o russkoi emigratsii.” Cahiers de l’émgration russe: Evrei Rossii – immigranty Frantsii. Editors, Moskovich, V.; Khazan, V.; Breiar, S. Moscow – Paris – Jerusalem: Gesharim, 2000, 416 pp. // Windows, 2’2001, p. 27.

54. [Review of Aleksei German’s movie “Khrustalev, my car!”]. “Skvoz’ magicheskii khrustal’.” // Our Scopus, 2000, 18, pp. 5-7.