Vladimir Sorokin's Discourses - A Companion

Vladimir Sorokin is the most controversial contemporary Russian
writer. He became famous when the Putin youth organization burned his books and
he picked up neo-imperialist discourses in his dystopian novels, making him one
of the fiercest critics of Russiäs ¿new middle ages,¿ while remaining
steadfast in his dismantling of foreign discourses.

List of contents

Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
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 Normand Socialist Realism
4. Marinäs 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
Sorokin¿s Works in English Translation
Sorokin¿s Works in Russian
Significant Texts in Other Languages
Research and Other Literature

About the author

Dirk Uffelmann (PhD Konstanz, 1999; postdoctoral lecturing qualification Bremen, 2005) is Professor of East and West Slavic Literatures at Justus Liebig University Giessen, Hesse, Germany. He is the author of Russian Culturosophy (1999) and The Humiliated Christ¿Metaphors and Metonymies in Russian Culture and Literature (2010), both in German, and Polish Postcolonial Literature (forthcoming, in Polish). He coedited fourteen volumes (in English, German, and Russian), including Vladimir Sorokin¿s Languages (2013), the journal Zeitschrift für Slavische Philologie, and the book series Postcolonial Perspectives on Eastern Europe and Polonistik im Kontext. He has published over 120 articles on Russian, Polish, Czech, and Ukrainian literature, philosophy, religion, migration, masculinity, and internet studies.

Summary

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 expectations of traditionally minded readers.

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“This exhaustively researched and subtly argued monograph … is able to chart the writer’s creative evolution with its attendant ‘continuity in discontinuity’. … The Companion, to my mind, will remain the definitive study of Sorokin’s work 1985–2017, whatever may come next.”
—David Gillespie, Tomsk State University, Slavonic and East European Review

Product details

Authors	Dirk Uffelmann
Publisher	Academic Studies Press
Languages	English
Product format	Paperback / Softback
Released	30.04.2020
EAN	9781644692851
ISBN	978-1-64469-285-1
No. of pages	236
Dimensions	156 mm x 234 mm x 13 mm
Weight	365 g
Series	Companions to Russian Literatu
Subjects	Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Russisch, Literaturwissenschaft: ab 2000, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Former Soviet Union, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century

Product details

• Authors: Dirk Uffelmann
• Publisher: Academic Studies Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781644692851
• ISBN: 978-1-64469-285-1
• No. of pages: 236
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 365 g
• Series: Companions to Russian Literatu
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Russisch, Literaturwissenschaft: ab 2000, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Former Soviet Union, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century