RUSSIAN STORY WITH USA SETTING

[Anna Dranova]

Subject: russian stories set in the USA

Hi, has anyone analyzed contemporary russian stories set in the US?
Ulitskaia and Petrushevskaia come immediately to mind, but I know
I've seen others.  What appears to me at first glance is that writers
whose narratives are usually complex, flatten their characters when
they set them on American soil.  Again, I'd be interested in knowing
whether there has been more sophisticated analysis than this.

Thanks,

Ruth Wallach
University of Southern California

Dr. Wallach!

Read Gavriil Khorev's MASTER I MARMELADOV (title in English: HOGTOWN). It's set in a small American college town, where the professors in the Modern Languages Department are competing for a pay raise. It has many ties to Bulgakov and Dostoevsky.

Anna Dranova    wolandusa at yahoo.com



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