Juri Lotman , a world-famous semiotician, literary and cultural historian, professor at the University of Tartu and founder of the Moscow-Tartu School in the 1960s, was the author of numerous important works on the semiotics of culture and the structure of poetry and literature. This book is not dedicated to the academic aspect of Juri Lotman's life, but rather portrays him as the person his colleagues and close friends knew in their daily lives. The book is comprised of Lotman's recollections and interviews in Estonian as well as texts written during various periods of his life. The book was compiled by Mihhail Lotman, Professor of Semiotics and Literary Theory at Tallinn University.
Juri Lotman , a world-famous semiotician, literary and cultural historian, professor at the University of Tartu and founder of the Moscow-Tartu School in the 1960s, was the author of numerous important works on the semiotics of culture and the structure of poetry and literature. This book is not dedicated to the academic aspect of Juri Lotman's life, but rather portrays him as the person his colleagues and close friends knew in their daily lives. The book is comprised of Lotman's recollections and interviews in Estonian as well as texts written during various periods of his life. The book was compiled by Mihhail Lotman, Professor of Semiotics and Literary Theory at Tallinn University.