Russian and Eastern European Science Fiction

3 credits · Undergraduate

This course will provide an introduction to science fiction in the Russian and Eastern European context. Emphasis on the origins from fantastic elements of Russian literature, utopian, socialist, and dystopian impulses, as well as the post-Soviet experience as apocalypse. Authors will include: Gogol, Zamyatin, Capek, Bulgakov, the Strugatskys, Lem, Pelevin. FORMATS: Lecture | Discussion