Description
Novelist Ludmila Ulitskaya is a crucial cultural figure in contemporary Russia, garnering both literary awards and best-seller status. Engaging with the past to combat the creeping authoritarianism of the Putin era, she has become the latest in a long line of Russian dissident authors championing the values of liberalism and tolerance while critiquing the state. Ludmila Ulitskaya and the Art of Tolerance is the first English-language book about this influential writer, contextualizing her in the shifting landscape of post-Soviet society and culture.
Drawing on interviews with Ulitskaya and sources not readily available to Western scholars, Elizabeth A. Skomp and Benjamin M. Sutcliffe explore the ethical ideals that make Ulitskaya's novels resonate in today's Russia-tolerance, sincerity, and diversity-and examine how she uses innovative imagery to personalize history through a focus on body and kinship. This is essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary Russian literature and society.
About the Author
Elizabeth A. Skomp is an associate professor and chair of the Russian Department at Sewanee: The University of the South, USA, and director of its Interdisciplinary Humanities Program.
Benjamin M. Sutcliffe is an associate professor of Russian and faculty associate of the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies, both at Miami University of Ohio, USA. He is the author of The Prose of Life: Russian Women Writers from Khrushchev to Putin, also published by the University of Wisconsin Press.
Reviews
"The table of ranks loomed large in Russian pre-revolutionary culture, and anyone who has tried to understand its intricacies will welcome the present book, [which] traces the impact of this imperial institution on Russian literature from the eighteenth to the late nineteenth century, both in the lives of writers and in the works they produced."-Slavic and East European Journal
Book Information
ISBN 9780299304140
Author Elizabeth A. Skomp
Format Paperback
Page Count 232
Imprint University of Wisconsin Press
Publisher University of Wisconsin Press
Weight(grams) 500g
Drawing on interviews with Ulitskaya and sources not readily available to Western scholars, Elizabeth A. Skomp and Benjamin M. Sutcliffe explore the ethical ideals that make Ulitskaya's novels resonate in today's Russia-tolerance, sincerity, and diversity-and examine how she uses innovative imagery to personalize history through a focus on body and kinship. This is essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary Russian literature and society.
About the Author
Elizabeth A. Skomp is an associate professor and chair of the Russian Department at Sewanee: The University of the South, USA, and director of its Interdisciplinary Humanities Program.
Benjamin M. Sutcliffe is an associate professor of Russian and faculty associate of the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies, both at Miami University of Ohio, USA. He is the author of The Prose of Life: Russian Women Writers from Khrushchev to Putin, also published by the University of Wisconsin Press.
Reviews
"The table of ranks loomed large in Russian pre-revolutionary culture, and anyone who has tried to understand its intricacies will welcome the present book, [which] traces the impact of this imperial institution on Russian literature from the eighteenth to the late nineteenth century, both in the lives of writers and in the works they produced."-Slavic and East European Journal
Book Information
ISBN 9780299304140
Author Elizabeth A. Skomp
Format Paperback
Page Count 232
Imprint University of Wisconsin Press
Publisher University of Wisconsin Press
Weight(grams) 500g
