Chaos and Symmetry: From Wilde to the Present Day

In a new audio book of essays “Chaos and Symmetry,” Andrei Astvatsaturov—just as befits a philologist—is an exquisite researcher and a lover of literature: classic Anglo-American and modern Russian. He will explain why, in Wilde’s “The Canterville Ghost,” the ghost is an artist; how Golding’s “Lord of the Flies” echoes an ancient tragedy; and why Henry Miller stared into emptiness. He will also tell about the features of the modern literary process, the prose of Mikhail Elizarov, Roman Senchin, German Sadulaev, and other famous authors.