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Mastering Chaos - The Metafictional Worlds of Evgeny Popov (Paperback, New edition)
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Mastering Chaos - The Metafictional Worlds of Evgeny Popov (Paperback, New edition)
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"This is an interesting and important book, the first attempt to
encapsulate the highly idiosyncratic oeuvre and career of Evgeny
Popov, a major and controversial figure in the late Soviet and
post-Soviet literary landscape." (Michael Pushkin, University of
Birmingham) "Morris is excellent in his treatment of the writer's
attitude towards the past and history; and he differentiates
between Popov's more nuanced and ambiguous view of the Soviet
experiment and those writers, likewise liberals, who have adopted a
'confessional' stance." (Robert Porter, University of Bristol) "A
broad contextualization of the works of this important Russian
author." (Christine Engel, University of Innsbruck) This is the
first book devoted to the writings of Evgeny Popov (born 1946), a
major and controversial figure in the late Soviet and post-Soviet
literary landscape. The author uses a wide range of primary and
secondary sources, many of them in Russian, alongside detailed
analysis of the novels and stories themselves. The introduction
charts the course of Popov's personal and professional biography,
including major turning points such as the Metropole affair of
1979. A chapter on critical contexts provides a clear account of
the history of Popov's reception. Other chapters focus on the first
collection of short stories and the complexities of narrative
voice, the concept of the 'non-elucidatory principle' at the heart
of Popov's poetics, and the short story cycles in Metropole and
Catalogue, from the late 1970s and early 1980s. Finally the author
addresses the key phenomenon of Popov's self-fictionalization in
both his shorter and longer works up to the present day.
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