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Post-Soviet Literature and the Search for a Russian IdentityPost-totalitarian Identity and the Struggle with Literaturocentrism

Post-Soviet Literature and the Search for a Russian Identity: Post-totalitarian Identity and the... [Chapter 3 examines the early novels and stories of one of Russia’s prime postmodernist authors, Vladimir Sorokin. After mapping out Sorokin’s critical engagement with Russia’s “literaturocentric” tradition and his intricate deconstructions of literature’s engagement with “the Russian question,” the chapter turns to its main case study: the tale “A Month in Dachau” (1994). As in Pelevin’s novel, in Sorokin’s early work totalitarian terror looms large over contemporary Russian culture, though here the insidious workings of a traumatic past have repercussions for authorship, aestheticism, and the literary medium itself. I argue in this chapter that Sorokin’s early stories and novels express the awareness that literature, in the wake of its alignment with (or dissent against) totalitarian projects, cannot assist in formulating new directions and collective identities without continuing its coercive functions.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Post-Soviet Literature and the Search for a Russian IdentityPost-totalitarian Identity and the Struggle with Literaturocentrism

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
ISBN
978-1-137-59672-7
Pages
59 –84
DOI
10.1057/978-1-137-59363-4_3
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Abstract

[Chapter 3 examines the early novels and stories of one of Russia’s prime postmodernist authors, Vladimir Sorokin. After mapping out Sorokin’s critical engagement with Russia’s “literaturocentric” tradition and his intricate deconstructions of literature’s engagement with “the Russian question,” the chapter turns to its main case study: the tale “A Month in Dachau” (1994). As in Pelevin’s novel, in Sorokin’s early work totalitarian terror looms large over contemporary Russian culture, though here the insidious workings of a traumatic past have repercussions for authorship, aestheticism, and the literary medium itself. I argue in this chapter that Sorokin’s early stories and novels express the awareness that literature, in the wake of its alignment with (or dissent against) totalitarian projects, cannot assist in formulating new directions and collective identities without continuing its coercive functions.]

Published: Jun 10, 2016

Keywords: Concentration Camp; Russian Literature; Social Mission; Soviet Society; Golden Hair

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