This book by a professor of Slavic studies at the University of Zurich, Sylvia Sasse, is about a key Russian socio-cultural phenomena - confession in the Russian literature of the 19th and 20th centuries. Contents: Verbal sins in a church confession; Literary (anti)-confessions; Dostoevskii and Bakhtin: Disappearance of the addressee; Catching speech against catching sin: Tolstoi"s speech against weakness; Force of repentance. Atonement and a miracle of language in Gorky"s works; Subconscious confessions; Theater therapy. Double catharsis; Self-critic: Confessions in social realism; Fictitious confessions: Confession and historiography in Danilo Kish"s works; Theater or court?: Involvement of viewers in the trial; Unheard confession: Nabokov and the borders of communication; Father"s versions: Exercises of selfexuse. The previous volume in the series, Iazyk/Istoriia/Kul"tura: Sbornik Statei (2010), is also available