CLT 265D - Russian Lit Between The Revs

Institution:

University of Rochester

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Description:

The fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 not only marked the end of a social(ist) experiment, but also closed a period in Russian cultural history. This course will look at the best (and a little of the worst) Russian fiction written during the Soviet period. We start with two novels describing the first decade of the new regime (‘Envy’ and ‘The Golden Calf’), read a Socialist Realist classic of the 1930s (‘How the Steel was Tempered’), sample literary tributes to Stalin, and discuss a manuscript that “would not burn” (Bulgakov’s ‘Master & Margarita’). Solzhenitsyn’s ‘One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich’ closes our discussion of the Stalinist period and marks a thaw in Russian culture that leads through Vasily Shukshin’s Siberian stories and Yury Trifonov’s Moscow prose in the sixties and seventies. The sensational debut of Tatyana Tolstaya’s short stories closes the Soviet period and anticipates the literary renewal of the immediate post-Soviet period. In English.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.rochester.edu

Phone Number:

(888) 822-2256

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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