Literature Redeemed - "Neo-Modernism" in the Works of the Post-Soviet Russian Writers Vladimir Sorokin, Vladimir Tuchkov and Aleksandr Khurgin

In the post-Soviet period, discussions of "postmodernism" in Russian literature have proliferated. Based on close literary analysis of representative works of fiction by three post-Soviet Russian writers - Vladimir Sorokin, Vladimir Tuchkov and Aleksandr Khurgin - this book investigates the usefulness and accuracy of the notion of "postmodernism" in the post-Soviet context.
Classic Russian literature, renowned for its pursuit of aesthetic, moral and social values, and the modernism that succeeded it have often been seen as antipodes to postmodernist principles. The author wishes to dispute this polarity and proposes "post-Soviet neo-modernism" as an alternative concept. "Neo-modernism" embodies the notion that post-Soviet writers have redeemed the tendency of earlier literature to seek the meaning of human existence in a transcendent realm, as well as in the treasures of Russia's cultural past.

About the author

Nicolas Dreyer received an MA (Hons) in International Relations and Russian from the University of St Andrews, Scotland and completed his Ph.D. on post-Soviet Russian literature at the same University. He currently researches and teaches Russian-Jewish literature at the University of Bamberg, Institute of Slavic Studies, Germany.

Summary

Postmodernism in Russian literature

Product details

• Authors: Nicolas Dreyer
• Assisted by: Nicolas Von: Dreyer (Editor)
• Publisher: Böhlau-Verlag GmbH
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 297 mm x 338 mm x 2 mm
• Weight: 607 g
• Series: Bausteine zur Slavischen Philologie und Kulturgeschichte. Reihe A: Slavistische Forschungen; Bausteine zur slavischen Philologie und Kulturgeschichte, Reihe A; Bausteine zur slavischen Philologie und Kulturgeschichte, Reihe A; Bausteine zur Slavischen Philologie und Kulturgeschichte A
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general)