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Janko Lavrin

Janko Lavrin was a Slovene novelist, poet, critic, translator, and historian. He was Professor of Slavonic Studies at the University of Nottingham. An enthusiast for psycho-analysis, he wrote what he called 'psycho-critical studies' of Ibsen, Nietzsche and Tolstoy.

Biography
Lavrin was born in Krupa, White Carniola, Slovenia. He was educated in Austria, Russia and Scandinavia, In 1915 and 1916 he served as war correspondent for Novoye Vremya covering the Serbian army's retreat through Albania. After Lavrin's retirement in 1952 Meanwhile Lavrin continued to write and translate. ==Works==
Works
В стране вечной войны: Албанские эскизы (In the country in the spring of war: Albanian sketches), Petrograd, 1916. • "Dostoevsky and His Creation: a psycho-critical study", London, 1920 • Tolstoy: a psycho-critical study, London, 1922 • Studies in European literature, London, 1929 • Aspects of modernism: from Wilde to Pirandello, London, 1935 • An introduction to the Russian novel, New York and London, 1943 • Dostoevsky: a study, New York, 1943 • Pushkin and Russian literature, London, 1947 • Tolstoy: an approach, London, 1948 • From Pushkin to Mayakovsky: a study in the evolution of literature, London, 1948 • Ibsen: an approach, London, 1950 • Nikolai Gogol, 1809-1852: a centenary survey, London, 1951 • Goncharov, New Haven, 1953 • Russian writers: their lives and literature, 1954 • Lermontov, London, 1959 • Russia, Slavdom and the Western World, London, 1969 • Nietzsche: a biographical introduction, 1971 • A panorama of Russian literature, London, 1973 • ==References==
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