TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE PERCEPTION OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE AFTER FEBRUARY 24, 2022

• Authors: Posokhin Ivan
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article explores the ongoing transformations in the way Russian literature has been represented and perceived outside Russia since the start of the war in Ukraine in 2022, based on texts from Western and Central European media. It addresses several key topoi (the guilt and innocence of Russian classical literature, the imperialism of Russian liberals, the “uselessness” of Russian literature in the context of war) and several narrative lines (cancelling, reconciling, defending). It then examines the perspectives of some of the most prominent contemporary Russian writers, including Evgenii Vodolazkin, Mikhail Shishkin, Ludmila Ulitskaya, and Maria Stepanova.

Keywords

EN

CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN LITERATURE; DISCOURSE; RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA; RUSSIAN LITERATURE; WAR; UKRAINE

• Publisher: Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: World Literature Studies
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 69 – 87

Contributors

author

Posokhin Ivan

• Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava, Gondova 2, 811 02 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4069-9536

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/WLS.2023.15.1.6