21 : Russian Short Prose from the Odd Century / edited by Mark Lipovetsky.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lipovet︠s︡kiĭ, M. N. (Mark Naumovich), Editor.

Series:

Cultural syllabus.

Cultural Syllabus

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

Russian prose literature--21st century.

Russian prose literature.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xiii, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, 2019.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This collection of Russian short stories from the 21st century includes works by famous writers and young talents alike, representing a diversity of generational, gender, ethnic and national identities. Their authors live not only in Russia, but also in Europe and the US. Short stories in this volume display a vast spectrum of subgenres, from grotesque absurdist stories to lyrical essays, from realistic narratives to fantastic parables. Taken together, they display rich and complex cultural and intellectual reality of contemporary Russia, in which political, social, and ethnic conflicts of today coexist with themes and characters resonating with classical literature, albeit invariably twisted and transformed in an unpredictable way. Most of texts in this volume appear in English for the first time. 21 may be useful for college courses but will also provide exciting reading for anyone interested in contemporary Russia.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction / Lipovetsky, Mark

1. Nikolai Baitov

2. Evgeny Shklovsky

3. Vladimir Sorokin

4. Nikolai Kononov

5. Leonid Kostyukov

6. Sergei Soloukh

7. Margarita Khemlin

8. Elena Dolgopyat

9. Kirill Kobrin

10. Pavel Pepperstein

11. Aleksandr Ilichevsky

12. Stanislav Lvovsky

13. Valery Votrin

14. Linor Goralik

15. Aleksey Tsvetkov Jr

16. Lara Vapnyar

17. Polina Barskova

18. Arkady Babchenko

19. Denis Osokin

20. Maria Boteva

21. Marianna Geide

About the Authors

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)

ISBN:

9781644690550

OCLC:

1098234333