This book, first published in 2000, features analyses about and by
some of the most important Russian writers of the 1980s, a period
of great changes in the cultural life of Russia when the controls
of Soviet communism gave way to a wide diversity of unfettered
writing. A variety of critical approaches matches the diversity of
Russian writers considered here. The book features David Bethea's
theoretical discussion of the work of the outstanding critic and
cholar Iurii Lotman and a fascinating extending interview with
leading poet Ol'ga Sedakova. Several writers and works receive
their first scholarly analyses in English, such as Sasha Sokolov's
complex postmodern novel, Between Dog and Wolf, Elena Shvarts's
poetry, and Zinovii Zinik's work. Aleksandr Zinov'ev's prose is
subjected to a searching formal analysis. The book contains an
essay on the literary environment of the Moscow poet Mikhail
Aizenberg, and a highly controversial article that reviews Russian
writing as an extension of imperialism. Writers who for various
reasons fell into opprobrium during the 1980s include the Soviet
village writers and the late Andrei Siniavskii (Abram Tertz). A
survey of urban prose in the late 1980s looks into an uncertain
future, while playwright Viktor Slavkin represents the best of
contemporary Russian drama.
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