Discourses of Vladimir Sorokin

Vladimir Sorokin is one of the brightest representatives of Russian postmodernism, whose texts often evoke a stormy reader and critical reaction due to the abundance of obscene language, scenes of sex and violence. In his monograph, German Russist Dirk Uffelmann analyzes all major works of Vladimir Sorokin for the first time - from "Queue" and "Novel" to "Snowstorm" and "Telluria." The author shows how, drawing plots from 19th century Russian classics and socialist realism, addressing popular culture and nationalist rhetoric, Sorokin remains true to the intention to fragment foreign discourses. The author takes a comprehensive approach to the evolution of Sorokin's writing - once a "restrained young man" who shocked the circle of conceptualists with "unprecedented mockery of Soviet aesthetic norms," later a scandalous author whose books were thrown into a foam toilet by pro-Kremlin youth, and now a living classic who is constantly referred to as a visionary.