TATYANA TOLSTAYA

BACKGROUND INFORMATION ABOUT THE

AUTHOR

1. Russian short-story writer, essayist, and novelist, who established her fame
in the 1980s as one of the most original voices in Russian fiction.
2. Tolstaya was born in Leningrad into a family of writers.
3. Tatyana Tolstaya lives in Moscow the capital of Russia.
THE COMMON THEMES OF THE AUTHOR'S
WORK
1. Themes include the dangers and joys of art, man’s vile and selfish
nature, and those transcendental moments evoked by poetry and
landscape.
2. About politics, identity, love, and loss, cut to the core of the Russian
psyche, even as they lay bare human universals.
3. War and peace.
LIST OF THE AUTHOR’S WORK:
On the golden porch.

Sleepwalker in a Fog, Alfred A.

Pushkin’s Children: Writings on Russia and Russians.

The Slynx.

White Walls.
1. Aetherial Worlds: Stories.
THE SLYNX
QUESTIONS ABOUT THE VIDEO

1. Whhat is the story all about?

2. What is Benedikt’s job?
3. What happened to the people in the town?
4. What lesson did you learn about the story?
5. Based in the story, is it a dystopian or utopian world? Why?