We are going to talk about Contemporary literature specifically, but it doesn’t include only the literature of the most recent years. It is technically a course on the history of literature, but the history starting from the late Soviet period up until today. The goal is to show you the best writers’ names, so that you may remember them and read their works after the end of this course.

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The course will show you the tendencies that were developing in Russian literature in last 25 years, and finally to come to it’s present state, in this way forming a journey across the vast sea that is called Russian Literature. Good luck!

Syllabus

WEEK 1: The Prehistory of Contemporary Literature

WEEK 2: The Origins of Contemporary Russian Literature

WEEK 3: The Birth of Russian Postmodernism

WEEK 4: Development of Postmodernist Fiction. Victor Pelevin

WEEK 5: Between Postmodern, Liberal and Pop Literatures. Boris Akunin

WEEK 6: Between Postmodernism and “Human” Literature: Tatiana Tolstaya and Mikhail Shishkin

WEEK 7: Literary Situation of 2000s

WEEK 8: The New Realism of 2000s

WEEK 9: Current Literature. New Names and Trends, part 1

WEEK 10: Current Literature. New Names and Trends, part 2