Uffelmann Vladimir Sorokin’s Discourses

A Companion
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-64469-372-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 236 Seiten

Reihe: Companions to Russian Literature

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 Russia’s “new middle ages,” while remaining steadfast in his dismantling of foreign discourses.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Uffelmann, Dirk

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Slawische Literaturen Ostslawische Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
A Note on Transliteration, Translation, and Referencing
Disclaimer1. Introduction: The Late Soviet Union and Moscow’s Artistic Underground2. The Queue and Collective Speech 3. The Normand Socialist Realism4. Marina’s Thirtieth Love and Dissident Narratives5. A Novel and Classical Russian Literature6. A Month in Dachau and Entangled Totalitarianisms7. Sorokin’s New Media Strategies and Civic Position in Post-Soviet Russia8. Blue Lard and Pulp Fiction9. Ice and Esoteric Fanaticism—a New Sorokin?10. Day of the Oprichnik and Political (Anti-)Utopias11. The Blizzard and Self-References of a Meta-Classic12. Manaraga and Reactionary Anti-Globalism13. Discontinuity in Continuity: ProspectsBibliography
Sorokin’s Works in English Translation
Sorokin’s Works in Russian
Significant Texts in Other Languages
Research and Other Literature

Über Autor(innen)

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.