Russian Literature with Environmental Focus

[Helena Goscilo]

Iurii Nagibin, "By a Quiet Lake"
Svetlana Vasilenko, "Piggy" and "Going After Goat-Antelopes"
lyrics of the Liube song "Ne rubite, muzhiki," which you could trans. into
English in 15 mins.
(I'm assuming that animals endemic to a given area qualify as part of the
environment)

Helena Goscilo

--On Thursday, July 13, 2000, 10:22 AM -0700 Kevin M Platt
<KMFP4747 at POMONA.EDU> wrote:r

> Dear SEELANGers:
>
> I'm looking for some literature suggestions.
>
> I am revising a course that I haven't taught for a few years: a cultural
> history of the environment in the Soviet Union/Russia in the 20th century.
>
> The course is in English translation and includes literature, film,
> historical source materials and critical works. There are two gaps in the
> set of literary works covered in the course that I would like to fill.
>
> Firstly, I would like something from the 40s and 50s which thematizes
> postwar reconstruction, late Stalinism and attitudes towards the
> environment.
>
> Secondly, I need something from the more recent, post-Soviet era which
> deals with environmental issues in an interesting way.
>
> I'd be very grateful for any suggestions.
>
> FYI: The major literary works included in the course in its last iteration
> were:
>
> Kataev's "Time, Forward!"
> Village prose works by Solzhenitsyn and Rasputin
> Zalygin's "The Commission"
> Gubaryev's play "Sarcophagus"
> Narbikova's "Okolo Ekolo" (trans. as "In the Here and There.")
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Kevin Platt
>
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