Course Description
The Russian poet Joseph Brodsky asserted that Hemingway and Faulkner took the place of the communist party's central committee for his generation of Soviet readers. I believe that modernist poets Frost and Herbert, Rich and Bishop, can tell us more about right and wrong, good and evil, than Darwin, Freud, and Marx have been able to teach us. These are not the latest writers, just (for me) the best poets of the 20th century.
Instructor: Richard Yatzeck, professor of Russian
Richard Yatzeck has been a member of the Lawrence faculty since 1966, teaching courses on 19th and 20th-century Russian literature and Russian literary traditions. He spent a year in the former Soviet Union studying at Moscow State University after graduating Phi Beta Kappa with a bachelor's degree in comparative literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he also earned his Ph.D. In 1997, he directed the Associated Colleges of the Midwest's off-campus study program in Kransnodar, Russia. An avid outdoorsman, he has written extensively about his hunting and fishing experiences, including the 1999 book Hunting the Edges.
