Author

Born in Leningrad (now St. Peterburg), Russia, Asya Pekurovskaya received M.A. in literature from Leningrad University, wed a writer, was blessed with a chance to immigrate to America, finished a doctoral program in literature at Stanford University and a post doctoral program in philosophy at the University of Charlottesville. She published three titles in Russian: a memoir called “When my Time came to Chant with S.D.” (Symposium, 2001) about her married life with Sergej Dovlatov, a writer of notable renown in Russia; a monograph on Dostoevsky: “Passions According to Dostoevsky: Mechanisms of Desire” (New Literary Review, 2004) and a monograph on Kant titled “The Hermetic Life of Immanuel Kant: Beyond Hearing and Vision” (Aletheia, 2010). She also finished the manuscript titled “Unpredictable Brodsky” (2016) both in Russian and in English. The entire manuscript www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/141394947/ was published by Aletheia Publishers in the summer of 2017.

Asya’s interview after publication of her book on Dostoevsky was called “Authors’ Myths are Built by Authors themselves”. Here is the link: http://os.colta.ru/persons/asya_pekurovskaya/

Two reviews of the first book.