All Future Plunges to the Past (eBook)

James Joyce in Russian Literature

José Vergara (Autor)

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2021
270 Seiten
Northern Illinois University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-5991-8 (ISBN)

Infos

All Future Plunges to the Past explores how Russian writers from the mid-1920s on have read and responded to Joyce's work. Through contextually rich close readings, José Vergara uncovers the many roles Joyce has occupied in Russia over the last century, demonstrating how the writers Yury Olesha, Vladimir Nabokov, Andrei Bitov, Sasha Sokolov, and Mikhail Shishkin draw from Joyce's texts, particularly Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, to address the volatile questions of lineages in their respective Soviet, émigré, and post-Soviet contexts. Interviews with contemporary Russian writers, critics, and readers of Joyce extend the conversation to the present day, showing how the debates regarding the Irish writer's place in the Russian pantheon are no less settled one hundred years after Ulysses.

The creative reworkings, or "translations," of Joycean themes, ideas, characters, plots, and styles made by the five writers Vergara examines speak to shifting cultural norms, understandings of intertextuality, and the polarity between Russia and the West. Vergara illuminates how Russian writers have used Joyce's ideas as a critical lens to shape, prod, and constantly redefine their own place in literary history.

All Future Plunges to the Past offers one overarching approach to the general narrative of Joyce's reception in Russian literature. While each of the writers examined responded to Joyce in an individual manner, the sum of their methods reveals common concerns. This subject raises the issue of cultural values and, more importantly, how they changed throughout the twentieth century in the Soviet Union, Russian emigration, and the post-Soviet Russian environment.

Autor

José Vergara is Assistant Professor of Russian at Bryn Mawr College.

Inhalt

Introduction: How Joyce Was Read in Russia
1. Yury Olesha: An Envy for World Culture
2. Vladimir Nabokov: Translating the Ghosts of the Past
3. Andrei Bitov: In Search of Lost Fathers
4. Sasha Sokolov: "Here Comes Everybody" Meets "Those Who Came"
5. Mikhail Shishkin: Border Crossings
Conclusion: How Joyce Is Read in Russia

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.10.2021
• Reihe/Serie: NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
• Reihe/Serie: NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Yury Olesha, Vladimir Nabokov, Andrei Bitov, Sasha Sokolov, Mikhail Shishkin, Russian intertextuality
• ISBN-10: 1-5017-5991-4 / 1501759914
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-5991-8 / 9781501759918