CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN PROSE IN THE MIRROR OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING CRITIQUE
The article covers the problem of perception of the contemporary Russian prose by the Western criticism; a special attention is given to the analysis of differences in approach and of national and cultural peculiarities of the perception of the newest Russian literature in Russia and in the West. By means of the contrastive analysis of opinions about L.Petrushevskaya's, V.Makanin's, V.Pelevin's works in the native and English-speaking criticism the major tendencies in the reception of the contemporary Russian literature are developed.
Keywords: contemporary Russian prose, English-speaking criticism, western criticism, native criticism and philology, feministic literature, female prose, Soviet literature and mentality, postmodernism, pop-culture, cognitive dissonance, Russian national archetype
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Issue: 8, 2010
Series of issue: Issue 8
Rubric: Poetics of Literature
Pages: 138 — 141
Downloads: 977