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Record Nr.

UNINA9910481029803321

Autore

Uffelmann Dirk

Titolo

Vladimir Sorokin's Discourses : A Companion / / Dirk Uffelmann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, MA : , : Academic Studies Press, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

1-64469-286-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 225 pages)

Collana

Companions to Russian Literature

Disciplina

891.73/5

Soggetti

Russian prose literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Russian prose literature - 21st century - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- 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

Sommario/riassunto

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 by violating not only Soviet ideological taboos, but also injecting vulgar language, sex, and violence into plots that the postmodernist Sorokin borrowed from nineteenth-century literature



and Socialist Realism. Sorokin became famous when the Putin youth organization burned his books in 2002 and he picked up neo-nationalist and neo-imperialist discourses in his dystopian novels of the 2000s and 2010s, making him one of the fiercest critics of Russia's "new middle ages," while remaining steadfast in his dismantling of foreign discourses.