Silhouettes of Russian Writers

<span><span>Yuli Aikhenvald was one of the most popular and influential Russian literary critics of the early 1900s. His major book </span><span>Silhouettes of Russian Writers</span><span> went through six ever-expanding editions. A major presence in Vladimir Nabokov's early career Aikhenvald has since been neglected by other writers and critics. This collection translates several of Aikhenvald’s key essays making him available to English-speaking readers for the first time. Today’s readers will discover in these writings original impassioned interpretations of major Russian authors and a theoretical vision that grapples with an urgent question in this crisis-of-the-humanities moment: What is the function of criticism?</span></span>