20th Century Russian Literature

3 credits · Undergraduate

Masterpieces of literature as reflections of and reactions to massive social and political changes. Utopian and dystopian writing; literature as investigative reporting; and sincerity vs. postmodern irony. Return to nationalism in Putin's Russia. Including writings by Nabokov and six Nobel laureates: Bunin, Pasternak, Sholokhov, Solzhenitsyn, Brodsky, and Alexievich. Soviet and contemporary genre fiction. Knowledge of Russian is not required. [3] (HCA) (CORE A, C) (LE HFA)