Name: Anonymous 2011-03-03 0:03
I wonder how well our national contempary literature compares, /lit/! Present your most fashionable novelist pokemanz ITT
We Russians have
Victor Pelevin -- 4 GenY; Eastern and French Philosophy; Cyberpunk topics; "ART"; coolness; authenticity; glamour; Urban Alienation; consumerism; Pop Culture
Eduard Limonov, Vladimir Sorokin -- 4 GenX; Obscenities, Ultraviolence and Extravagant Sex; Radicalism; squalour, marginal groups; topical issues; humorous allusions to Russian history, politics and high culture; employ the "cut-up method" and other beat poet devices
Dmitriy Bykov, Tatyana Tolstaya -- 4 litclass teachers and classy women; write realist novels, draw heavily on popular discourse and canonical high culture; appear as mavins on TV; moderately liberal to conservative
Alexander Terekhov -- Historian and journalist; Researched a high profile 1943 murder case and stumbled upon the diaries of Soviet Minister's kids. wrote 2008 novel "the Stone Bridge" about Stalin era Moscow party elite life. caused immense public butthurt because Russians love Stalin a lot and never think of him as as yet another byzantin fascist.
We Russians have
Victor Pelevin -- 4 GenY; Eastern and French Philosophy; Cyberpunk topics; "ART"; coolness; authenticity; glamour; Urban Alienation; consumerism; Pop Culture
Eduard Limonov, Vladimir Sorokin -- 4 GenX; Obscenities, Ultraviolence and Extravagant Sex; Radicalism; squalour, marginal groups; topical issues; humorous allusions to Russian history, politics and high culture; employ the "cut-up method" and other beat poet devices
Dmitriy Bykov, Tatyana Tolstaya -- 4 litclass teachers and classy women; write realist novels, draw heavily on popular discourse and canonical high culture; appear as mavins on TV; moderately liberal to conservative
Alexander Terekhov -- Historian and journalist; Researched a high profile 1943 murder case and stumbled upon the diaries of Soviet Minister's kids. wrote 2008 novel "the Stone Bridge" about Stalin era Moscow party elite life. caused immense public butthurt because Russians love Stalin a lot and never think of him as as yet another byzantin fascist.