Faculty of Modern and听Medieval Languages and Linguistics Raised Faculty Building 海角社区 Sidgwick Avenue 海角社区 CB3 9DA United Kingdom
Dr Bryan Karetnyk is a scholar of twentieth-century Russian literature and culture. His research focuses on the writing of the Russian diaspora, with a particular emphasis on the intersection between literature and politics. He is currently preparing a monograph study on Vladimir Nabokov and totalitarianism.
Dr Karetnyk received his PhD in Russian Literature from University College London and his MA in Russian and Japanese from the University of Edinburgh. He has translated several major works by writers including Gaito Gazdanov, Boris Poplavsky and Yuri Felsen, and is the editor and principal translator of the landmark Penguin anthology Russian 脡migr茅 Short Stories from Bunin to Yanovsky (2017). He writes regularly for the Times Literary Supplement, the Financial Times and the Spectator.
Nineteenth and twentieth century Russian literature and culture; Russian to English translation
Twentieth-century Russian literature and music; exile and diaspora studies; the literature of the Russian emigration; the life and works of Vladimir Nabokov; the life and works of Yuri Felsen; totalitarianism; translation studies
Monographs:
- Bryan Karetnyk,听Nabokov and the Russian Diaspora: In the Margins of Totalitarianism听(London: Palgrave, forthcoming)
Chapters and Articles:
- B.P. Karetnikov, 鈥楧va fel鈥檈tona Iuriia Fel鈥檢ena鈥�, Novyi zhurnal 297, 2019, pp. 139鈥�155
- B.P. Karetnikov, 鈥楴eizvestnye proizvedeniia Iuriia Fel鈥檢ena鈥�, Novyi zhurnal 295, 2019, pp. 199鈥�215
- Bryan Karetnyk, 鈥業urii Fel鈥檢en鈥�, The Literary Encyclopedia, [online], first published 29 September 2017.
- Bryan Karetnyk, 鈥楽taging Lolita and 鈥淪aving鈥� Humbert: Nabokov, Shchedrin and the Art of Adaptation鈥�, Slavonic and East European Review xciv/4, 2016, pp. 601鈥�33
- Bryan Karetnyk, 鈥楪aito Gazdanov鈥�, The Literary Encyclopedia, [online], first published 16 December 2016.
Anthologies:
- Bryan Karetnyk (ed.),听Four Russian Short Stories听(London: Penguin Modern Classics, 2018)
- Bryan Karetnyk (ed.), Russian 脡migr茅 Short Stories from Bunin to Yanovsky (London: Penguin Classics, 2017)
Translations:
- Maxim Gorky,听Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreev听(London: Fitzcarraldo, forthcoming)
- Yuri Felsen,听Happiness, tr. Bryan Karetnyk (London: Prototype, forthcoming)
- Anatoly Marienhof,听Cynics, tr. Bryan Karetnyk (London: Penguin Modern Classics, forthcoming)
- Yuri Felsen, Deceit, tr. and intro. Bryan Karetnyk (London: Prototype,听2022)
- Boris Poplavsky, 海角社区ward from Heaven, tr. and intro. Bryan Karetnyk (New York: Columbia University Press, 2022)
- Gaito Gazdanov, An Evening with Claire, tr. and foreword Bryan Karetnyk (London: Pushkin Press, 2021)
- Alexander Grin, Fandango and Other Stories, tr. Bryan Karetnyk (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020)
- Irina Odoevtseva, Isolde, tr. Bryan Karetnyk and Irina Steinberg, intro. Bryan Karetnyk (London: Pushkin Press, 2019)
- Gaito Gazanov, The Beggar and Other Stories, tr. and intro. Bryan Karetnyk (London: Pushkin Press, 2018)
- Gaito Gazdanov, The Flight, tr. Bryan Karetnyk (London: Pushkin Press, 2016)
- Gaito Gazdanov, The Buddha鈥檚 Return, tr. Bryan Karetnyk (London: Pushkin Press, 2015)
- Gaito Gazdanov, The Spectre of Alexander Wolf, tr. Bryan Karetnyk (London: Pushkin Press, 2013)
