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Antoaneta Olteanu is a PhD habil. professor at the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures of the University of Bucharest, Department of Russian and Slavic Philology.
Author of numerous books in the field of Russian culture and civilization (Myths of classical Russia, Imperial Russia. A cultural history of the 19th century, Sovietland, 4 volumes – Failed Utopia, Gulag Country, Homeland of the Soviet Man, Triumph of Private Life), to which are added numerous studies devoted to dystopian and anti-totalitarian literature.
She also wrote several studies in the field of comparative ethnology (Hypostasis of the evil in magical medicine, Metamorphoses of the sacred, School of Solomon. Divination and witchcraft in a comparative context, Calendars of the Romanian people, Representations of space in Romanian beliefs, Dictionary of mythology. Demons, spirits , spirits; Days and demons. Russian Calendar and Mythology, Bulgarian Calendar and Mythology, Romanian Mythology, 3 volumes, etc.).
She devoted two volumes of criticism to Russian literature – Contemporary Russian Prose (Forked Alleys. Poetics of Russian Postmodernism), as well as over 75 volumes of translations from the Russian language. Among the writers translated into Romanian, we mention: F.M. Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment, The Adolescent, Memories from the House of the Dead, Demons, The Double, etc.), I.A. Goncearov (Oblomov), Mikhail Bulgakov (The Master and Margarita), Andrei Platonov (Cevengur), Iuri Dombrovski (Faculty of Superfluous Things), Saşa Sokolov (School for Fools), Ludmila Petruşevskaia (The Metropol Little Girl, City of Light, Love Stories ), Mikhail Shishkin (Pismovnik (Letter-Book), Maidenhair, The Taking of Ismail, The Half-Belt Overcoat), Vladimir Sorokin (The Sugar Kremlin, The Blizzard), Viktor Erofeev (The Russian Beauty), Andrei Kurkov (Penguin Lost, The President's Last Love, A Matter of Death and Life), Olga Slavnikova (The Enemy of the People, The Immortal), Marina Stepnova (Women of Lazarus, Italian Lessons), Svetlana Aleksievich (Chernobyl Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future, Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II).