FW: [SEELANGS] contemporary Russian fiction

[Furman, Yelena]

Dear all,
Since a number of you asked that I post the responses to my query to the list, here's what I have thus far, and an ogromnoe spasibo to all who gave the suggestions (and Ben, who sent the syllabus!): 
 
First, a source for contemporary translated texts that got the most mentions: 
Glas: New Russian Writing  http://www.glas.msk.su/ <http://www.glas.msk.su/> 

 

Someone else mentioned a Russian literary site that lists its picks for contemporary fiction (as well as poetry and non-fiction) 

http://www.openspace.ru/literature/projects/122/details/7202/page1/ - however, this won't tell you whether these texts been translated into English.

 

 

Specific titles that some of you suggested, both early and late post-Soviet: 

 

Pelevin:  Yellow Arrow, Ontology of Childhood, Werewolf Problem in Central Russia (to this I would add Omon Ra, which my students always love).

 

Viktor Erofeev:  "Life with an Idiot" 


Sorokin: A Business Proposition, Four Stout Hearts 

 

Andrei Volos, Hurramabad   

 

Vladimir Makanin: "Prisoner from the Caucasus"


 

Not surprisingly, a lot of women writers: 

 

Petrushevskaia, The Time: Night

 

Vasilenko, Shamara

 

Ulitskaia: Angel; Funeral Party; Medea and her Children 


Tolstaia.  The Slynx - several people suggested this one (although, in all fairness, I must say that I could barely finish it myself, so I'm not sure I want to put my poor students through this!  Apologies to all the Tolstaia fans out there.)

 

Nina Gabrielian:  "Master of the Grass" 

 

Dina Rubina: "On Upper Maslovka" 

 

Anastasiia Gosteva:  "Closed Americas" 

 

One of you said "When it appears in English, Slavnikova's _2017_ ( Marian Schwartz is doing a translation)" and also her "Krylov's Childhood" 

 

 

Other suggestions for "other" texts: Akunin, Marinina, Robski  

 

THANK YOU TO ALL!
Best, Lena

 

 

 

 

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From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list on behalf of Furman, Yelena
Sent: Tue 1/6/2009 1:47 PM
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Subject: [SEELANGS] contemporary Russian fiction



Dear list members,
As usual, I am appealing to your collective wisdom.  I am putting together my syllabus for an undergraduate course (i.e., readings in English) on Russian fiction from glasnost' to the present (including Petrushevskaia, Pelevin, Ulitskaia, possibly Makanin, Narbikova).  I am writing to ask for your suggestions for readings (novels or short stories) for the later part of the course, roughly from the mid/late 1990s to now.  And if anyone feels like sharing their own teaching experiences with any of the texts - what worked, what didn't, etc.- I'd love to hear about that too.  Please reply off-list: yfurman at humnet.ucla.edu
Many thanks in advance, and happy New Year!
- Yelena Furman

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