Apocalyptic Pandemic in Yana Vagner’s To The Lake

IF 0.3 3区 文学 0 LITERATURE, SLAVIC RUSSIAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI:10.1016/j.ruslit.2022.11.013
Irina Souch
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The article offers an analysis of Yana Vagner’s bestselling novel To the Lake (Epidemiia) focusing on the ways in which this speculative text reflects on contemporary apocalyptic anxieties and fascinations unleashed by the global COVID-19 pandemic. Following Priscilla Wald’s contention that over the last hundred-plus years the knowledge about epidemics within different realms has been shaped by the “outbreak narrative” that arrives in “scientific, journalistic, and fictional incarnations,”  I consider how the novel spotlights the mutually reinforcing relation between a long-standing and increasingly globalised cultural imagination about contagion and the medical and political interpretations of an actual pandemic.

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亚娜·瓦格纳的《去湖》中的启示性流行病
本文分析了Yana Vagner的畅销小说《到湖去》(《流行病》),重点分析了这篇推测性的文章如何反映了全球COVID-19大流行引发的当代世界末日的焦虑和迷恋。普里西拉·沃尔德(Priscilla Wald)认为,在过去的一百多年里,不同领域关于流行病的知识是由“科学、新闻和虚构的形式”形成的“爆发叙事”塑造的,我认为这部小说如何突出了长期存在的、日益全球化的关于传染病的文化想象与对实际流行病的医学和政治解释之间相互加强的关系。
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期刊介绍: Russian Literature combines issues devoted to special topics of Russian literature with contributions on related subjects in Croatian, Serbian, Czech, Slovak and Polish literatures. Moreover, several issues each year contain articles on heterogeneous subjects concerning Russian Literature. All methods and viewpoints are welcomed, provided they contribute something new, original or challenging to our understanding of Russian and other Slavic literatures. Russian Literature regularly publishes special issues devoted to: • the historical avant-garde in Russian literature and in the other Slavic literatures • the development of descriptive and theoretical poetics in Russian studies and in studies of other Slavic fields.
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