A School for Fools by Sasha Sokolov (w/ Dr. José Vergara)

Show Notes : This week, Dr. José Vergara returns to the podcast to talk about Sasha Sokolov’s A School for Fools . The novel, first published in English in 1977, follows student so-and-so (and his double) as he attempts to tell events of his life. The novel doesn’t follow a linear plot — or even an easy-to-distinguish narrator — and puts you on your toes as you meander between stories. Dr. Vergara is an associate professor of Russian in the Bryn Mawr College’s Department of Russian. He is the author of All Future Plunges to the Past: James Joyce in Russian Literature, a co-editor of Reimagining Nabokov: Pedagogies for the 21st Century, and aa co-editor of the digital annotated edition of Sasha Sokolov’s Between Dog and Wolf. Link to Encyclopedia of the Dog : The Embodied Language of Sasha Sokolov’s A School for Fools by José Vergara : Sasha Sokolov: ‘Here Comes Everybody’ Meets ‘Those Who Came’ by José Vergara: The music used in this episode was “Старое Кино / Staroye Kino,” by Перемотка / Peremotka. You can find more of their work on Bandcamp and Youtube . Our links: Website | ⁠Discord⁠ Socials: Instagram⁠ | BlueSky | Twitter⁠ | Facebook Questions, comments, want to hear your voice on a bonus episode? Send us an email at slaviclitpod@gmail.com . Advertising Inquiries:

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A School for Fools by Sasha Sokolov (w/ Dr. José Vergara) is an episode from Tipsy Tolstoy by The Slavic Literature Pod.

This episode is 65:31 long.

This episode was published on Mar 20, 2026.

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