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.
- Preface to the project The Word to Claude. Ways of Evaluating Literary Works
- The Anatomy of a Survivor: A Novel-Epitaph for an Era. On Yuri Troitsky’s Novel Shatz
- The Mechanics of Seizure: A Moscow Saga as Diagnosis. On Oleg Radzinsky’s Novel Days of Repentance
- Поэтика распада: о прозе Игоря Белодеда
- The Topography of Trauma: A Parabolic Novel about the Impossibility of Paradise. On Ksenia Buksha’s Novel A Little Paradise
- A Pocket Full of Children: The Anatomy of Queer Horror. On Ilya Danishevsky’s Novel Damocles Techno
- Nothing but the Heart: A Theology of Perplexity. On Grisha Prorokov’s Novel
- Spending the War Without You: An Archaeology of Survival. On Tatyana Zamirovskaya’s Book
- The Camera Shutter. On Yevgeny Feldman’s Book
- War as a Mode of the Body’s Existence. On Zhenya Berezhnaya’s Book
- Thorns in the Ashes: Testimony as Form. On Alexander Motsar’s Book
- A Hell More Terrible than Hell. On Alexandra Krashevskaya’s Book
- A Father’s Testimony: A Genre That Should Not Exist. On Dmitry Petrov’s Novella
