A professor in the Department of Slavic Languages at Georgetown University and an associate faculty member in the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies.
Russian Orthodox religious subtexts are of a specific nature. Fyodor Dostoevsky uses both liturgical and biblical references, but a Russian speaker often perceives even a scriptural quote or allusion primarily through its liturgical context. Sometimes the same reference has two levels of allusion—as perceived in the biblical context and, separately, as it would be known[…..]
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In what way is music a language, if it cannot be translated to other languages? After all, every attempt to paraphrase music or our impressions from it seems to make its beauty and the uniqueness of its effect on us collapse and fall flat. Such is the case with poetry as well. A work of[…..]
