teaching a course on contemporary russian novels/s hort stories

[Furman, Yelena]

In my experience of teaching contemporary Russian lit to undergraduates,
Pelevin's Omon Ra was a big success; another good title was Petrushevskaia's
The Time: Night.
Since there is a great deal of contemporary writing by women, a good
collection is Lives in Transit: Recent Russian Women's Writing, edited by
Helena Goscilo.  Glas also has the Nine of Russia's Foremost Women Writers
collection.  I believe one of the volumes of the Writings from an Unbound
Europe series that has already been mentioned (Northwestern) is translations
of Svetlana Vasilenko's work.
Most of these are obviously more than a couple years old, and I'm not sure
how 'contemporary' you were looking for, but I hope some of this will be
helpful.
-Yelena Furman


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Dear all:
I am thinking of teaching an undegraduate course on
contemporary Russian literature in English translation.

The only collection that I am aware of that would help me
to teach such a course is the one made by Thomas
Hoisington.
Any suggestions?

LIza Ginzburg


		
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