Thaw times have passed

Efim Kurganov-Doctor of Philosophy, Slavist philologist, researcher of the genre of literary historical joke. For the first time in Russian literature, it was he who built the genealogy of this unique genre, following his flowering in the work of Pushkin, Gogol, Leskov, Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Dovlatov, Platonov. Sometimes the reader does not even suspect that writers introduce jokes known in their era, which often make the basis of their texts. And the joke becomes not just an artistic element, but the main component of the narrative manner of a particular author. Efim Kurganov identifies the sources of borrowing jokes, introduces them to them and shows how they were transformed in Evgenia Onegin, House in Kolomna, Revisor, Chameleon, Teenager and many other classical texts.
This The book is similar to a detective investigation, a fascinating quest in Russian literature, the answers to which amaze with finds and incite even more interest in it