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Vladimir Sorokin’s Discourses: A Companion

Vladimir Sorokin’s Discourses: A Companion, by Dirk Uffelmann, was published by Academic Studies Press in April 2020.
Sorokin emerged as a prose writer in Moscow’s artistic underground in the late 1970s and early 80s, and 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.

Dirk Uffelmann

Academic Studies Press

2020-09-07
On: September 7, 2020
Tagged: companion, post-soviet, Sorokin
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