Scholarly editions of his works are at last being published in Russia, albeit fitfully,and Harvill is to be commended for its commitment to a series of English translations. This and his undoubted, but oft-disputed, significance in Soviet literature have led to a considerable number of publications over recent years. 1999 was not only the year of Pushkin and Nabokov, but also of Platonov. (Essays in Poetics, 26 (Autumn, 2001), Platonov Special Issue in Two Volumes) Keele: Keele Students Union Press. University of Nottingham Elizabeth Boa A Hundred Years ofAndrei Platonov. The volume also has a sequence of highly informative appendices: the media and migrants research centres, other institutions, and prizes bibliographies for groups and individuals along with short C Vs an index ofnames notes on the editor and contributors and on illustrations. In the main, however, the case for intercultural literature as a coherent ifhighly complex field of study is convincingly argued. MLRy 98.1, 2003 257 over realist literature. Keywords: otherness, trauma, psychopathology, identity.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: In a second moment, a determinant aspect of the subjective experience of otherness will be focalized, that is, the traumatic impact lived by a subject when confronted with the radical otherness. Different levels and types of disturbs inflicted to individual identities by the impacts produced by otherness will be analyzed in identities that could be considered as already constituted. As a starting point, the self experience of otherness is discussed through Vitangelo Moscarda character, in Luigi Pirandello's romance Uno, nessuno e centomilla ("One, none and one hundred thousand"). Dialogues between a modern literature character and the philosophy of Emmanuel LĂ©vinas and also psychoanalitical theories and practice shall establish the yearned theorization. The main purpose of this paper is to contribute to a more profound theorization of the impasses suggested by the oppositions identity/otherness and sameness/difference in the psychopathological studies of traumatic experiences.
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