Mikhail Epstein is a philologist, philosopher, cultural theorist, and essayist. He is Distinguished Professor of Cultural Theory and Russian Literature at Emory University in Atlanta and the founder of the Centre for Humanities Innovation at Durham University in the United Kingdom. He is the author of numerous books and articles in Russian and English, translated into 26 languages. He is the recipient of the Andrei Bely Prize (1991), the Liberty Prize (New York, 2000), among others. Among his principal interests in recent years are the development of artificial intelligence and creative collaboration with it, as well as the emergence of new literary genres.
The Word to Claude is a special project by Mikhail Epstein created for the Dar Prize. This page will feature materials created with the use of artificial intelligence about the books shortlisted in the Prize’s second season.
Within the framework of the project, each work is accompanied by two formats: a review and an evaluation according to the “Interestingness” system.This approach makes it possible to view the texts from two perspectives at once: as subjects of literary analysis and as objects of a more formalized assessment that takes into account the relationship between surprise, persuasiveness, and internal logic.
