Diskursy Vladimira Sorokina [Vladimir Sorokin’s Discourses: A Companion]

Vladimir Sorokin is one of the most prominent representatives of Russian postmodernism, whose texts often evoke a stormy reader and critical reaction due to the abundance of obscene vocabulary, scenes of sex and violence. In his monograph, the German Russianist Dirk Uffelmann for the first time analyzes all the main works of Vladimir Sorokin - from The Queue and The Roman to The Snowstorm and Telluria. The author shows how, drawing plots from Russian classics of the 19th century and socialist realism, turning to popular culture and nationalist rhetoric, Sorokin remains true to the mindset of splitting other people's discourses. The author takes a comprehensive approach to the evolution of the writing of Sorokin, who was once a 'restrained young man' who struck the circle of conceptualists with an 'unheard-of outrage against Soviet aesthetic norms', later a scandalous author whose books were thrown into a foam toilet bowl by pro-Kremlin youth, and now a living classic, who is constantly