Subversive Imaginations: Fantastic Prose and the End of Soviet Literature, 1970s-1990s

ISBN-13: 9780367289157 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 232 str.

Nadya Peterson

Opis

In response to the profound changes in Soviet society in recent years, the author considers the demise of Soviet literature and the emergence of its Russian progeny through the prism of the writers' engagement with fantasy.

Spis treści

Introduction -- Writers, Readers, Society, and Literary Change -- Fantastic Prose as an Escape from the Literature of Purpose -- Socialist Realists in Space -- Between Fantasy and Reality -- Peasant Dreamers, Shattered Dreams: Village Utopians -- Mikhail Bulgakov's Disciples in Soviet Literature -- Envisioning the End: The Apocalyptic Novels of Glasnost -- Alternative Literature I: The Thieves of Language -- Alternative Literature II: Games Women Play -- Conclusion

O autorze

Nadya L. Peterson is assistant professor of Russian language and literature at the University of Connecticut.