Abram I. Reitblat

Reytblat

PhD in Pedagogics,

Editor of the Bibliography Department, Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie Publishing House (Moscow, Russia)

Scopus ID: 37096097000

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PhD Thesis:

Methodology and Methods for Studying the Dynamics of Reading in Public Libraries (1982)

Professional service

1975–2002 — worked at the Department of Sociology of reading and libraries of Lenin RSL.

From 1994 to present — head of the department of bibliography in the "New Literary Observer". Also leads the "Russian memoirs" and "Cinema Texts" series in the same publishing house.

Head of the Department of Rare Books of the Russian State Art Library.

 

Selected scientific publications

Monographs

  • Classics, Scandal, Bulgarin... Articles and Materials on the Sociology and History of Russian Literature. Moscow, New Literary Observer Journal, 2020. 576 p. (In Russ.)
  • V. Bulgarin — Writer, Journalist, Theater Critic.Мoscow, New Literary Observer Journal Publ., 2019. 528 p. (In Russ.)
  • Faddey Venediktovich Bulgarin: Ideologist, Journalist, Secret Police Consultant: Articles and Materials. Мoscow, New Literary Observer Journal Publ., 2016. 632 p. (In Russ.)
  • Writing Across: Articles of Biography, Sociology and History of Literature. Мoscow, New Literary Observer Journal Publ., 2014. 400 p. (In Russ.)
  • From Bova to Balmont and Other Works on the Historical Sociology of Russian Literature. Мoscow, New Literary Observer Journal Publ., 2009. 448 p. (In Russ.)
  • Historical and Sociological Essays on Book Culture of the Pushkin Era. Moscow, New Literary Observer Journal Publ., 2001. 336 p. (In Russ.)
  • How Pushkin Became a Genious: Historical and Sociological Essays on the Book Culture in Pushkin Era. Мoscow, New Literary Observer Journal Publ., 2001. 336 p. (In Russ.)
  • Vidocq Figlyarin Letters and Undercover Notes by F.V. Bulgarin in Department III, comp. and comm. by A. Reitblat. Мoscow, New Literary Observer Journal Publ., 1998. 722 p. (In Russ.)

Selected Essays

  • “Literary Character Prototype as a Scientific Category.” New Literary Observer Journal, no. 1 (185), 2024, pp. 175–189. https://doi.org/10.53953/08696365-2024-185-1-175 (In Russ.)
  • “Russian Writers as Prototypes of Literary Characters (Materials for the Dictionary of Prototypes in Russian Literature of the 19th — Early 20th Centures).” Literary Fact, no. 2 (32), 2024, pp. 379–428. https://doi.org/10.22455/2541-8297-2024-32-379-428 (In Russ.)
  • “Letter to the Editor.” New Literary Observer Journal, no. 2 (180), 2023, pp. 429–430. (In Russ.)
  • “Old as New (Review of the Book: Voloshina S.M. Power and Journalism: Nicholas I, Andrei Krayevsky and others. Moscow, 2022).” New Literary Observer Journal, no. 5 (183), pp. 371–377. (In Russ.)
  • “Correspondence of F.V. Bulgarin and K.F. Kalaidovich.” Literary Fact, no. 3 (29), 2023, pp. 136–154. https://doi.org/10.22455/2541-8297-2023-29-136-154 (In Russ.)
  • “Nikolay Polevoy and the Third Section.” Literary Fact, no. 4 (14), 2019, pp. 228–251. https://doi.org/10.22455/2541-8297-2019-14-228-251 (In Russ.)
  • “An observant Observer: Nikolay Grech and the Third Section.” Literary Fact, no. 10, 2018, pp. 108–164. https://doi.org/10.22455/2541-8297-2018-10-108-164 (In Russ.)
  • “Feoktist Ulegov, author of ‘The Guest Court of Russian Literature’.” Literary Fact, no. 8, 2018, pp. 112–129. https://doi.org/10.22455/2541-8297-2018-8-112-129 (Co-authored with V.A. Shkerin) (In Russ.)
  • “Theory without Facts, Digits without Theory.” New Literary Observer Journal, no. 2 (150), 2018, pp. 157–161. (In Russ.)
  • “Bulgarin and others. 4. Unsuccessful Bulgarin (М.А. Bestuzhev-Ryumin and His Relations with F.V. Bulgarin).” Literary Fact, no. 6, 2017, pp. 229–249. https://doi.org/10.22455/2541-8297-2017-6-229-249 (In Russ.)
  • “Bulgarin and others. 3. F.V. Bulgarin’s Letters to Censors.” Literary Fact, no. 4, 2017, pp. 172–201. https://doi.org/10.22455/2541-8297-2017-4-172-201 (In Russ.)
  • “Bulgarin and others. 2. Circles on the Water, or, the Great Effect of a Letter by F. Bulgarin.” Literary Fact, no. 3, 2017, pp. 215–234. https://doi.org/10.22455/2541-8297-2017-3-215-235 (In Russ.)
  • “‘Do Russians Need Freedom?’ A Survey of Publications Dedicated to the 150-year Anniversary of the Liberation of the Serfs.” New Literary Observer Journal, no. 6 (142), 2016, pp. 167–180. (In Russ.)
  • “Rhetorical Strategies of Justification of Serfdom in the First Half of the 19th” New Literary Observer Journal, no. 5 (141), 2016, pp. 259–273. (In Russ.)
  • “The Novel of ‘Literary Failure’.” Russian Studies in Literature, vol. 40, no. 1, 2003, p. 11. (In English)