Vladimir Sorokin's discourses : a companion /

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Author / Creator:Uffelmann, Dirk, author.
Imprint:Brookline, MA : Academic Studies Press, 2020.
©2020
Description:1 online resource (ix, 225 pages)
Language:English
Series:Companions to Russian literature
Companions to Russian literature.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12542644
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ISBN:9781644692868
1644692864
9781644694404
1644694409
9781644692844
9781644692851
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 19, 2020).
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 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"--
Other form:Print version: Uffelmann, Dirk. Vladimir Sorokin's discourses. Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2020 9781644692844