Mythopoetics of Post-Soviet Literary Fiction: Viktor Pelevin and Vladimir Sorokin
Journal: Knowledge@UChicago (University of Chicago)
Year: 2018

movements, e.g., Sots-Art, Socialist Realism, and modernism?3) What is the role of the genre of utopia in the literary culture of the post-Soviet era, and how is such utopianism related to Soviet myth, mass culture, and Socialist Realism? 4) What can the sub-genre of dystopia tell us about the future of Russian literary fiction, and how can we reconcile the current manifestations of dystopian fiction with both extant models of utopian literary fiction and contemporary Russian culture?I answer th