Literature in Post-Communist Russia and Eastern Europe: The Russian, Czech and Slovak Fiction of the Changes 1988-98 (Basees/Routledgecurzon Series on Russian and East European Studies)

Read Literature in Post-Communist Russia and Eastern Europe: The Russian, Czech and Slovak Fiction of the Changes 1988-98 (Basees/Routledgecurzon Series on Russian and East European Studies) PDF by * Rajendra Anand Chitnis eBook or Kindle ePUB Online free. Literature in Post-Communist Russia and Eastern Europe: The Russian, Czech and Slovak Fiction of the Changes 1988-98 (Basees/Routledgecurzon Series on Russian and East European Studies) Postmodern Slavic writing This work is #16 in the BASEES/Routledge/Curzon series on Russian and East European studies. Based largely on his doctoral thesis, Chitnis offers up a comparative study of contemporary Russian, Slovak and Czech writers. But these writers are not the more well known authors like Simecka or Pekarkova, but are writers that have set themselves apart from the pack. Chitnis often discusses lesser known writers like Mitana, Kahuda and Kolenic, among others. It was his intent,

Literature in Post-Communist Russia and Eastern Europe: The Russian, Czech and Slovak Fiction of the Changes 1988-98 (Basees/Routledgecurzon Series on Russian and East European Studies)

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Rating : 4.55 (506 Votes)
Asin : 0415546141
Format Type : paperback
Number of Pages : 208 Pages
Publish Date : 2016-05-21
Language : English

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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.. 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 ficti

Postmodern Slavic writing This work is #16 in the BASEES/Routledge/Curzon series on Russian and East European studies. Based largely on his doctoral thesis, Chitnis offers up a comparative study of contemporary Russian, Slovak and Czech writers. But these writers are not the more well known authors like Simecka or Pekarkova, but are writers that have set themselves apart from the pack. Chitnis often discusses lesser known writers like Mitana, Kahuda and Kolenic, among others. It was his intent, the author informs us, to seek out alternative, "underground" writers. These contemporary scribes largely came of an age and began writing in what can

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. 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 int

'We have a book here which offers valuable insights into an analysis of three literatures as they have evolved over the first decade following the collapse of Communism.' - MLROne of the strengths of this work lies in its comparative nature. It does not treat Czech and Slovak writers as mere material for comparison: It presents them as full-fledged players… The study has two more great strengths. The first, though merely technical, is not to be taken lightly: the corpus of works under discussion represents a judiciously chosen reading list of the most significant fiction in the three literatures during the decade following the fall of Communism… The other strength lies in the clear, concise, but never reductionist analyses of the main contribution to the corpus. Review in Slavic and East European Journal. - Michael Heim, University of California, Los Angeles

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