Authors of Alternative Literature Textbook Named
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13.10.2010
Limbus Press has announced the names of authors contributing to two-volume literature textbook. The textbook is unique in that each section on the standard Russian classics is written by contemporary Russian writers. The textbook will be titled Literary Matrix.
The textbook, which focuses on the official public school literature subjects, includes essays by Lyudmila Petrushevskaya on Alexander Pushkin and Andrei Bitov on Mikhail Lermontov. Other contributors as such authors as Alexander Kabakov, Tatiana Moskvina, Ilya Boyashov, Maria Stepanov, Olga Slavnikova and other well-known writers.
All essays with the exception of Maxim Kantor’s writings on Vladimir Mayakovsky are only be published as a part of this textbook. The compilations was prepared in part by specialists from the philology department of St. Petersburg State University.
The publishers emphasize that the textbook is not meant to replace but rather to supplement existing literature textbooks. The textbook does not bear the Ministry of Education and Science’s seal of approval. The textbook is expected to go on sale in November 2010.