Original scientific paper

Editor as Author; or, on Irena Lukšić’s Editorial Genre

Adrijana Vidić

Abstract

While to the reading public Irena Lukšić is surely best known as our principal translator of Russian literature, her decades-long toil in the field of literature extended far beyond translation. She was a prominent scholar of Russian emigre literature, as well as an exceptionally fertile prose writer and, last but not least, an important editor. The world-literature series In the Wake of Classics, which she edited for fifteen years, includes four rather unusual publications of her own, a kind of by-products of her editorial work. The paper will attempt to answer the question to which genre possibly belong the books Idols and Rascals: Famous People in Literary Works (an Essay), Towns Hamlets Castles: a Guide for Literary Tourists, Classics Left to Cats: an Attempt to Read Literary Texts Otherwise and Feasting in the Wake of Classics (a Literary »Cookbook«) and provide an outline of their relation to Irena Lukšić’s other literary interests and accomplishments.

Keywords

Lukšić, Irena; In the Wake of Classics; editor; author; genre

Hrčak ID:

246611

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/246611

Publication date:

20.10.2020.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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