Literature in Post-Communist Russia and Eastern Europe
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Author_Rajendra Anand Chitnis
Bakhtin 1984b
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cultural identity crisis
czech
Czech Fiction
Czech Literature
Czech National Revival
death
Dostoevsky's Underground Man
Dostoevsky’s Underground Man
Eastern European fiction analysis
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existence
fiction after communism collapse
Glass Powder Compact
hrabal
ideological critique in literature
implied
literary theory transformation
Liudmila Petrushevskaia
Moscow Conceptualism
Moscow Ring Road
narrative innovation
Pitch Fork
post-Changes Period
post-Soviet literary studies
Russian Postmodernism
Shock Therapy
slovak
Slovak Culture
Slovak Literature
Slovak Writers
Sorokin's Work
Sorokin’s Work
Soviet Cosmos
terrestrial
Tight Rope
Tight Rope Walker
Vasilii Shukshin
Venedikt Erofeev
Viktor Erofeev
West Germany
writers
Young Man
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- ISBN 9780415355575
- Weight: 430g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 25 Nov 2004
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book considers Russian, Czech and Slovak fiction in the late communist and early post-communist periods. It focuses on the most innovative trend to emerge in this period, on those writers who, during and after the collapse of communism, characterised themselves as 'liberators' of literature. It shows how these writers in their fiction and critical work reacted against the politicisation of literature by Marxist-Leninist and dissident ideologues, rejecting the conventional perception of literature as moral teacher, and redefining the nature and purpose of writing. The book demonstrates how this quest, enacted in the works of these writers, served for many critics and readers as a metaphor for the wider disorientation and crisis precipitated by the collapse of communism.
Rajendra A. Chitnis studied at the University of Sheffield and at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, from which he received his PhD in 2003. Since 1999 he has held the post of lecturer in Russian and Czech Studies at the University of Bristol. His current research includes analysis of works by Tolstaia, Sorokin and Pelevin, Hrabal, Hodrová and Kahuda, and Vilikovský, Pi¹»anek and Balla. Alongside research into nineteenth- and twentieth-century Czech fiction, he is also interested in the development of learning materials for the study of Czech language and culture.
