Three decades of adaptation for five classics. Book review: Fedorova, L. (2022). Cinema adaptation as a symptom. Russian classical literature screened in Post-Soviet time

Abstract

Review of the monograph Adaptation as a Symptom by the Russian-American researcher Lyudmila Fedorova, dedicated to post-Soviet film adaptations of the works of Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Chekhov. The question is raised about the limits of the film adaptation, about popularity of Russian literature in the world and lability of its position in modern Russia, and also about the complex imposition of genre, social and ideological attitudes of the authors of adaptations.