Lazar Fleishman

Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Contact Information:
Building 240, Room 106
650 725 0005
lazar.fleishman@stanford.edu

Education

The State University of Tartu and the Latvian State University, Ph.D. (1967-1968)
The Latvian State University, Russian and Slavic Philology (1961-1966, with honors)
The Academy of Music, Riga, USSR (1957-1961)

Research
Interests:
Boris Pasternak; Russian avant-garde poetry and art; Russian-Jewish, Russian-Baltic and Russian-Polish cultural relationships; poetics; and archival research
Teaching
Current Courses:
Russia’s Weird Classic: Nikolai GogolStanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to sophomores. The work and life of Nikolai Gogol, the eccentric founder of Fantastic Realism. The relationship between romanticism and realism in Russian literature, and between popular Ukranian culture and high Russian and W. European traditions in Gogol’s oeuvre. The impact of his work on 20th-century modernist literature, music, and art, including Nabokov, literature of the absurd, Shostakovich, Meyerhold, and Chagall. Aut
Introduction to Russian Literary ScholarshipRequired for graduate students and honors undergraduates in Slavic; first-year Slavic graduate students must enroll during their first quarter. Introduction to graduate study in Russian literature and culture: profession, discipline, and approaches to the study of literature and culture. Theoretical readings, practical exercises in the analysis of verse and narrative, and recent monographs on Russian literature. https://www.stanford.edu/~gfreidin/courses/200/index.htm Aut
Poetry as System: Introduction to Theory and Practice of Russian VerseThe history and theory of Russian versification from the 17th to the 20th century. Prerequisite: reading knowledge of Russian.Win
Advanced Russian Seminar: Reading Pushkin's Evgenii OneginWin
From Alexander Blok to Joseph Brodsky: Russian Poetry of the 20th CenturyRequired of majors in Russian literature. Developments in 20th-century Russian poetry including symbolism, acmeism, futurism, and literature of the absurd. Emphasis is on close readings of individual poems. Discussions in Russian.Spr
Selected Publications:
TitleYear
Boris Pasternak: The Poet and His Politics1990Link
Boris Pasternak: The Poet and His Politics1990Link
Boris Bojnev. Collected Poems. Vol. I, II1987
Boris Pasternak in the Thirties1984