Čechov e la critica dell’emigrazione

Nell’articolo si analizzano i saggi e le monografie che i critici dell’emigrazione russa hanno dedicato all’opera di Čechov. Alla definizione di bytopisatel’, di cronista ancorato al suo tempo, con cui nella Russia Sovietica degli anni Venti si decretava l’appartenenza dello scrittore ormai al passato, viene contrapposta la modernità di Čechov sia per le riflessioni su problematiche esistenziali sempre attuali sia per il carattere innovativo della scrittura.The article analyses essays on Chekhov’s works written by Russian emigration critics. It focuses on the contraposition between Chekhov as a writer belonging to the past, a bytopisatel’ and chronicler of his times, as stated by Soviet Russia in the 1920s, and Chekhov as a truly modern writer provoking reflection on timeless existential issues through his innovative writing

The still under-investigated role of cognitive deficits in PML diagnosis

Background: Despite cognitive deficits frequently represent the first clinical manifestations of Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy (PML) in Natalizumab-treated MS patients, the importance of cognitive deficits in PML diagnosis is still under-investigated. The aim of the current study is to investigate the cognitive deficits at PML diagnosis in a group of Italian patients with PML. Methods: Thirty-four PML patients were included in the study. The demographic and clinical data, the lesion load and localization, and the longitudinal clinical course was compared between patients with (n = 13) and without (n = 15) cognitive deficit upon PML suspicion (the remaining six patients were asymptomatic). Clinical presentation of cognitive symptoms was described in detail. Result: After symptoms detection, the time to diagnosis resulted to be shorter for patients presenting with cognitive than for patients with non cognitive onset (p = 0.03). Within patients with cognitive onset, six patients were presenting with language and/or reading difficulties (46.15%); five patients with memory difficulties (38.4%); three patients with apraxia (23.1%); two patients with disorientation (15.3%); two patients with neglect (15.3%); one patients with object agnosia (7.7%), one patient with perseveration (7.7%) and one patient with dementia (7.7%). Frontal lesions were less frequent (p = 0.03), whereas temporal lesions were slightly more frequent (p = 0.06) in patients with cognitive deficits. The longitudinal PML course seemed to be more severe in cognitive than in non cognitive patients (F = 2.73, p = 0.03), but differences disappeared (F = 1.24, p = 0.29) when balancing for the incidence of immune reconstitution syndrome and for other treatments for PML (steroids, plasma exchange (PLEX) and other therapies (Mefloquine, Mirtazapine, Maraviroc). Conclusion: Cognitive deficits at PML onset manifest with symptoms which are absolutely rare in MS. Their appearance in MS patients should strongly suggest PML. Clinicians should be sensitive to the importance of formal neuropsychological evaluation, with particular focus on executive function, which are not easily detected without a formal assessment

Dacia kak detskoe prostranstvo

Taking a set of memoirs (A. Benois, V. Sklovskij, E. Bonner) and tales (L. Andreev, F. Sologub, A. Bitov) as main points of reference, the article presents an analysis of the evolving concept of dacha in the light of both pre- and post-revolutionary childhood and the different views of children and adults about this specific space. In a children-oriented vision, the space of dacha can be metaphorically interpreted as an ideal place of initiation, maturation and shift into the adult world, whereas adults perceive dacha as the ideal place where they can recover a childhood-inspired, simple and delighted view of the world

Memuarno-avtobiografi\u10deskij diskurs v dnevnikovych zapisjach Ol'gi Berggol'c

Ol\u2019ga Berggol\u2019ts\u2019s diary, written between July 1939 and the years of the war and the siege, is not only an extraordinary testimony of a tragic moment in the history of Leningrad, but also an interesting exposure \u2013 through the use of the written word \u2013 of the most secret and unspeakable thoughts on the present and the recent past in the light of the writer\u2019s personal experiences. The author is intimately divided between the need to tell the truth about herself and the surrounding world, and the sentiment of disquiet resulting from the pressure of the official censorship and a sort of self-censorship stemming from the fear to write about her own emotions and thoughts. The act of writing implies going once again through the pain and the sorrow that may be triggered in the process and admitting to herself a deep disenchantment with what she had believed in. Despite all of this, however, Ol\u2019ga Berggol\u2019ts embarks on a difficult path towards awareness, on the quest of an individual truth, which is in contrast with the official truth of the regime

\u201cGenius Loci\u201d i novoe gradostrojtel\u2019stvo v rimskich korrespondencijach Muratova

Nel 1926 Pavel Muratov collabora con il giornale dell\u2019emigrazione russa a Parigi \u201cPoslednie Novosti,\u201d pubblicando otto corrispondenze nella rubrica Rimskie pis\u2019ma (Lettere da Roma), dedicate alla vita quotidiana nella capitale e pi\uf9 in generale nella penisola, e alle tradizioni culturali italiane. Nell\u2019articolo Novyj Rim (La nuova Roma), qui presentato e commentato, dove Muratov, traendo spunto dal discorso pronunciato da Mussolini il 31 gennaio 1925 sulla \u201cricostruzione di Roma\u201d, esprime disappunto per il cattivo gusto che caratterizza l\u2019architettura degli edifici moderni e riprende uno dei temi a lui cari: la necessit\ue0 di mantenere una continuit\ue0 tra passato e presente attraverso la conservazione del patrimonio artistico e architettonico, garanzia per l\u2019uomo di un rapporto armonico con lo spazio abitativo

Svetlana Aleksjevic e la voce delle donne. Presentazione Bookcity novembre 2016

Presentazione del volume "La guerra non ha un volto di donna" del Premio Nobel Svetlana Aleksjevic all'interno della rassegna Bookcity, 19 novembre 201