Биография автора
Barbara Ronchetti is an Italian scholar of Russian Literature. She wrote the first Italian monograph on the “Znanie” group’s editorial activity (Roma 1996), and published around a hundred articles on 19th and 21st Century Russian poetry and prose. Among her major interests are the intercultural perspective in the study of literary topoi, intertextual and translational aspects of European culture. In more recent years, her research has brought to the fore texts and interpretative problems related to the field of memory studies (Post-Soviet Memory and Oblivion, Autobiography, Family Memory). Since 2011, she has been the editor of the Sapienza University Press “Intercultural Series”. Her latest books are: Caleidoscopio russo. Studi di letteratura contemporanea (Macerata 2014); Dalla steppa al cosmo e ritorno. Letteratura e spazio nel Novecento russo (Roma 2016; Russian translation: Iz stepi v kosmos i obratno. Literatura i prostranstvo v Rossii XX veka, Moskva 2021).