Two Faces of Western Romantic Hero

"Aleksandr Sukonik never glides on the surface of things; he burrows himself into his subject, digs his own channel in search of the ever elusive truth. He shakes the very foundation of Russian tradition of literary criticism itself." -- Marietta Chudakova, literary critic and historian, doctor of philological sciences, member of Academia Europaea"I believe that Sukonik possesses a rare vision obtained as a result of trying space travel that we in Russia call emigration. Nobody has written on Dostoevsky and Chekhov like this before." -- Sergey Bocharov, literary critic, laureate of New Pushkin's and Solzhenitsyn's prizes.