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"A Mind Purified by Suffering: " Evgenia Ginzburg's "Whirlwind" Memoirs is the first book on Ginzburg's Journey into the Whirlwind and Within the Whirlwind, covering such topics as: memory, trauma, motherhood, love, survival strategies, and metafictional structures. It also provides a history of prison camp writings, her biography, and an interview with her son Vasily Aksenov.

Explores how Arkadi and Boris Strugatskii's cosmological explorations are among the most fundamental elements of their art. The book also examines how these explorations connect to their predecessors in the Russian literary tradition - particularly to the poetry of Pushkin.