Cancer, Vadim Dmitrievich

He graduated from the English department of the Faculty of Philology of Leningrad State University (1955) and graduate school in the department of foreign literature (1958). In 1958-1961 he worked at the GPB . In 1961-1964 he served in the Soviet Army (translator). In 1964-1987 he taught at the Leningrad Institute of Soviet Trade . In 1967 he defended his thesis ("Satirical and moral journals of Addison and Style and the literary polemic of their time").

  Since 1988 - employee of IRLI (chief researcher of the Department of Pushkin Research, then head of the Dostoevsky Group).  In 1990 he defended his doctoral dissertation ("Russian literary collections and periodicals of the second half of the XVIII century").

Main topics of scientific interest: the history of Russian and English literature of the XVIII century, the relationship of Russian and foreign literature, the work of A. S. Pushkin and F. M. Dostoevsky . A number of articles are devoted to the refinement of bibliographic descriptions in the "Consolidated Catalog of the Russian Book of the Civil Press of the 18th Century, 1725-1800" - attribution of anonymous translated publications. Articles were published in the editions of the Pushkin House "XVIII Century", "Dostoevsky. Materials and research ”and others. V.D. Cancer, as a member of the editorial board and author of comments, takes part in the publication of academic full works of Pushkin and Dostoevsky.

Books

• Russian literary collections and periodicals of the second half of the 18th century: Foreign sources, composition, compilation technique. - SPb. : Academic project, 1998. - 335 p. - ISBN 5-7331-0125-3 .
• Pushkin, Dostoevsky and others: (Questions of textology, materials for comments): Collection of articles. - SPb. : Academic project, 2003. - 522, [3] c. - ISBN 5-7331-0252-7 .
• Articles about the literature of the XVIII century. - SPb. : Pushkin House, 2008. - 637, [1] p. - ISBN 978-5-91476-015-8 .

Articles

• Bibliographic notes on translated books of the 18th century // Transactions of the USSR State Library named after V.I. Lenin. - M., 1969. - T. 11. - S. 145-156.
• Translated anonymous works in the "City and Village Library" // XVIII century. - L., 1976. - Sat. 11. - S. 1259-130.
• "The second addition" in the "Writer" N. G. Kurganova // XVIII century. - L., 1977. - Sat. 12. - S. 199-224.
• Translator V. A. Priklonsky: (materials on the history of the Tver "cultural nest" in the 1770-1780s) // XVIII century. - L., 1981. - Sat. 13. - S. 244-261.
• Was Fonvizin the author of the handwritten “Malus" // XVIII century. - L., 1983. - Sat. 14. - S. 261-291.
• Russian translations from the "Experience of moralizing stories" Pfeil // Relations of Russian and foreign literature. - L., 1983. - S. 73-99.
• “Hellish post” and its French source // XVIII century. - L., 1986. - Sat. 15. - S. 169—197.
• Hypotheses about the publisher of the magazine "Mix" // XVIII century. - L., 1989. - Sat. 16. - S. 76-103.
• Peter Holsten, librarian of the British trading post, and the cycle “Brief Historical News” in the Tobolsk Journal // XVIII century. - SPb., 1991. - Sat. 17. - P. 88—122.
• Translations in the journal “Reading for taste, reason and feeling” // XVIII century. - SPb., 1993. - Sat. 18. - S. 230—261.
• Bibliographic notes // XVIII century. - SPb., 1995. - Sat. 19. - S. 187—222.
• Bibliographic notes // XVIII century. - SPb., 1996. - Sat. 20. - S. 169-203.
• F.A. Emin and Voltaire // XVIII century. - SPb., 1999. - Sat. 21. - S. 151-161.
• Materials for the study of the collection of I. V. Novikov, “The Adventures of Ivan the Son of the Son, and Other Tales and Tales” // XVIII century. - SPb., 2002. - Sat. 22. - S. 122-154.
• About the crisis of academic Pushkin studies and the outskirts of the great Pushkin scholars // Neva. - 2003. - No. 1. - S. 198—209.
• Italian impressions of Feridat: (On one source of the novel by F. A. Emin “Unstable Fortune, or the Advent of Miramond”) // XVIII century. - SPb., 2004. - Sat. 23. - S. 80-103.
• Kurganov and Chulkov: (Textological incident) // XVIII century. - SPb., 2006. - Sat. 24. - S. 144-152.

• Pushkin House: materials for history, 1905-2005. - SPb., 2005 .-- S. 511.
• Who is who in Russian literary criticism. - M., 2011 .-- St. 280.

• Page on the site of the Pushkin House (list of publications about Dostoevsky).