teaching a course on contemporary russian novels/s hort stories

[B. Shir]

I would like to thank everybody who responded to my
request.
I found much more works than expected!
Liza Ginzburg

--- "Furman, Yelena" <yfurman at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU> wrote:

> 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
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
> Sent: 6/3/2005 3:24 PM
> Subject: [SEELANGS] teaching a course on contemporary
> russian novels/short
> stories
>
> 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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