Journal of Arts & Ideas Numbers 12-13 A special issue on Soviet literary theory, theatre, cinema, arts and architecture. Price Rs. 16.00 Introduction Kalpana Sahni From the Aiil to the Cosmos ; Interview with Chmghiz Aitmatov On the Staging of The Ascent of Fujiyama Prasanna Shakespeare in the Productions ofSturua and Chkheidze Vyacheslav Ivanov Those who left the Festivities : Georgian Cinema Today K Demin ^Contemporay Art Is Devoid of a Spiritual Basis': Interview with Andrei Tarkovsky 'The Sacrifice' Andrei Tarkovsky The Armenian Museum of Ethnography Levon Babyan Reconstruction of Vilnyus Kaminkas & Yalovetskas Historical Poetics of Epos and Romane : East and West Eleazar Meletinsky Western Interpretations of Bakhtin Rashnmi Doraiswamy Subscriptions & Circulation Office : 78-G Sujan Singh Park, New Delhi 110003.