Book launch: Vladimir Sorokin's Languages

Dirk Uffelmann uffelmann at UNI-PASSAU.DE
Wed Oct 23 11:45:50 UTC 2013


The first book in English dedicated to Vladimir Sorokin’s oeuvre has now been published as part of the "Slavica Bergensia" series.

The book will be launched on 1 November 2013 at the "Bad Words, Bad Writing?" open seminar in Copenhagen. The event is being hosted by Tine Roesen (University of Copenhagen) and features papers from Manuela Kovalev (University of Manchester and University of Vienna) and Dirk Uffelmann (University of Passau).


The Copenhagen seminar
Friday 1 November 2013, 1300-1600, room 27.0.09, Copenhagen University, Amager (KUA1), Karen Blixens vej, DK-2300 København S. 
For further information, please contact: Tine Roesen, assistant professor of Russian literature, swl117 at hum.ku.dk.


The book
Vladimir Sorokin’s Languages, eds. Tine Roesen and Dirk Uffelmann, [Slavica Bergensia 11], Bergen, 2013.

Contributions by Mark Lipovetsky, Nariman Skakov, Peter Deutschmann, Maxim Marusenkov, Nadezhda Grigoryeva, Ilya Kalinin, Manuela Kovalev, Dirk Uffelmann, Martin Paulsen, José Alaniz, Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya, Brigitte Obermayr, Tine Roesen, Marina Aptekman, Ingunn Lunde, Ilya Kukulin.

Presenting edited papers from the conference "Vladimir Sorokin’s Languages" (Aarhus University, Denmark, 2012), the book aims to fill a gap in Anglophone academia, since Sorokin has so far been the subject of analysis primarily in Russia and the German-speaking world. Mark Lipovetsky’s opening article is followed by 15 contributions from an international selection of scholars. The volume concludes with the conference’s final roundtable discussion between Sorokin himself and his translators. In this discussion as well as throughout the volume, the multifaceted dimensions of languages and metalanguages in Sorokin’s works are the focus of attention. Language is seen not as a barrier to be overcome but as a major focal point of Sorokian poetics, which possesses metalinguistic, metarhetorical, metastylistic, metadiscursive and metapragmatic dimensions.


Ordering information
The book may be ordered by emailing ingunn.lunde at if.uib.no, or by sending a fax or letter to: Slavica Bergensia, Dept. of Foreign Languages, University of Bergen, P.O. Box 7805 N — 5020 Bergen, Fax (+47) 55 58 42 60.
Books are sent by surface mail together with an invoice. You may pay by international money
order, or directly into our bank account.
Price: NOK 150 (approx. $25) + postage.

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