Vladimir Sorokin’s Discourses : : A Companion / / Dirk Uffelmann.

Vladimir Sorokin is the most prominent and the most controversial contemporary Russian writer. Having emerged as a prose writer in Moscow’s artistic underground in the late 1970s and early 80s, he became visible to a broader Russian audience only in the mid-1990s, with texts shocking the moralistic...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Place / Publishing House:Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Companions to Russian Literature
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Physical Description:1 online resource (236 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on Transliteration, Translation, and Referencing
  • Disclaimer
  • 1. Introduction: The Late Soviet Union and Moscow’s Artistic Underground
  • 2. The Queue and Collective Speech
  • 3. The Norm and Socialist Realism
  • 4. Marina’s Thirtieth Love and Dissident Narratives
  • 5. A Novel and Classical Russian Literature
  • 6. A Month in Dachau and Entangled Totalitarianisms
  • 7. Sorokin’s New Media Strategies and Civic Position in Post-Soviet Russia
  • 8. Blue Lard and Pulp Fiction
  • 9. Ice and Esoteric Fanaticism—a New Sorokin?
  • 10. Day of the Oprichnik and Political (Anti-)Utopias
  • 11. The Blizzard and Self-References of a Meta-Classic
  • 12. Manaraga and Reactionary Anti-Globalism
  • 13. Discontinuity in Continuity: Prospects
  • Bibliography
  • Index