{"product_id":"vladimir-sorokins-discourses-a-companion-9781644692844","title":"Vladimir Sorokin's Discourses: A Companion","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVladimir 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e“\u003c\/i\u003eThis volume, the second entry in Academic Studies Press’s newly launched series Companions to Russian Literature, makes admirably clear the stakes of Vladimir Sorokin’s writing, his major interventions, and the historical currents that have changed him from an underground Soviet writer publishing in the West to a ‘classic in his lifetime’ (\u003ci\u003eprizhiznennyi klassik\u003c\/i\u003e) who addresses his Russian audience from Germany. … Uffelmann’s readings are persuasive and balanced throughout; I particularly appreciated his remarks on the specular intertwining of Stalinist and Hitlerian totalitarianisms, Sorokin’s running association with Tolstoy, and the important if always contingent opposition of ‘victim’ to ‘perpetrator’ texts.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Jacob Emery, Indiana University, Bloomington, \u003ci\u003eRussian Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—David Gillespie, Tomsk State University, \u003ci\u003eSlavonic and East European Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Note on Transliteration, Translation, and Referencing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDisclaimer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. Introduction: The Late Soviet Union and Moscow's Artistic Underground\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. \u003cem\u003eThe Queue \u003c\/em\u003eand Collective Speech            \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. \u003cem\u003eThe Norm\u003c\/em\u003eand Socialist Realism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4. \u003cem\u003eMarina's Thirtieth Love \u003c\/em\u003eand Dissident Narratives\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5. \u003cem\u003eA Novel \u003c\/em\u003eand Classical Russian Literature\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6. \u003cem\u003eA Month in Dachau \u003c\/em\u003eand Entangled Totalitarianisms\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7. Sorokin's New Media Strategies and Civic Position in Post-Soviet Russia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e8. \u003cem\u003eBlue Lard \u003c\/em\u003eand Pulp Fiction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e9. \u003cem\u003eIce \u003c\/em\u003eand Esoteric Fanaticism—a New Sorokin?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e10. \u003cem\u003eDay of the Oprichnik \u003c\/em\u003eand Political (Anti-)Utopias\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e11. \u003cem\u003eThe Blizzard \u003c\/em\u003eand Self-References of a Meta-Classic\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e12. \u003cem\u003eManaraga \u003c\/em\u003eand Reactionary Anti-Globalism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e13. Discontinuity in Continuity: Prospects\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eSorokin's Works in English Translation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eSorokin's Works in Russian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eSignificant Texts in Other Languages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eResearch and Other Literature\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Academic Studies Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359906595159,"sku":"9781644692844","price":82.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781644692844.jpg?v=1754126077","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/vladimir-sorokins-discourses-a-companion-9781644692844","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}