Pub Date : 2016-10-01DOI: 10.1080/10611975.2016.1264038
V. Vladimirskiĭ
Vasilii Vladimirskii takes science fiction in Russia as an example of how genre fiction can evolve and remain attractive to readers. The article outlines the history of Anglophone science fiction through several phases of evolution but argues that literary conditions in the Soviet Union did not favor the growth of a tenacious literary opposition in science fiction. Vladimirskii is pessimistic about the possibility that speculative fiction in Russia can renew itself by selecting the best marginal works, because the mainstream so dominates that part of the literary market.
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Pub Date : 2016-10-01DOI: 10.1080/10611975.2016.1264029
Maria Galina
Maria Galina notes the greater stylistic freedom offered by genre fiction, including fantastika. She discusses Sergei Zharkovskii's 2005 novel I, Hobo: The Times of Death, and Elena Khaetskaia's 2010 novel The Fall of Sofia (comparing its mix of futurology with social and linguistic archaism to that in Vladimir Sorokin's 2010 Blizzard) as worthy stylistic experiments. After mentioning Jasper Fforde's literature-focused novels, partly translated into Russian, Galina notes the hopelessness in the powers of language and literature expressed in Tatiana Tolstaya's Slynx and Vladimir Danikhnov's The Girl and the Dead.
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Pub Date : 2016-10-01DOI: 10.1080/10611975.2016.1269627
Sibelan E. S. Forrester
Readers of Russian Studies in Literature may already know that Russia has one of the great world traditions in the genre of science fiction. They may also know that the word fantastika can refer both to science fiction, “nauchnaia fantastika,” and to other kinds of fantasy writing, though fantasy proper was not permitted in the Soviet period and today is usually described with a Russified form of the English, fentezi. Many readers of speculative fiction are fans of both genres, and fantastika continues to be an important part of the Russian Federation’s literary system. This issue contains eight articles on fantastika—some are substantial studies, others briefer reviews or conceptual pieces. Sergei Shickarev’s article “High Waves, Quiet Backwaters” introduces a number of new authors of fantastika, largely from the “Color Wave” of new writers who first appeared in the 2000s and 2010s. Shickarev notes both the importance of anthologies in starting the new movement and the centrality of literature as well as political subtexts in the writing. This links them in principle with such high-concept Soviet era authors as the Strugatsky brothers. Shickarev notes several important journals that publish fantastika and criticism of it. The genre has fragmented in Russia today largely because of the huge number of publications—he
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Pub Date : 2016-10-01DOI: 10.1080/10611975.2016.1264016
D. Zarubina
Dar'ia Zarubina begins with some examples of successful recent fantasy writing for young adults, then zooms in on works by two authors, Dmitrii Kazakov's Moscow Blizzard and Nik Perumov's Molly from North York. Zarubina outlines the plot and style of each work and its relationship to fantasy or steampunk. She concludes that both works are worth giving to young readers, though Kazakov's is better suited to independent reading while Perumov's would be best read by a parent and child together.
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Pub Date : 2016-10-01DOI: 10.1080/10611975.2016.1263989
Sergei Shickarev
The article considers the new generation of speculative fiction writers in Russia, who started publishing in the late 2000s and early 2010s. Central among them is a loosely connected group of authors known collectively as the Color Wave. Their primary focus is on “inner space” and emotional processes, while they usually avoid social aspects and problems of the real world. The article describes the genesis and conceptual framework of the Color Wave, listing the most prominent authors and works associated with the movement. Other significant authors of the same generation are discussed as well.
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Pub Date : 2016-10-01DOI: 10.1080/10611975.2016.1264042
Dmitrii Zanerv
Dmitrii Zanerv points out the unusual and continuing popularity of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, who are still read all over the world. After outlining their biographies, Zanerv identifies their three great works and discusses the reason for the decline in quality or importance of their later writings. He concludes that they are not as great as they seemed to Soviet readers who had not read widely in science fiction from other cultures, though to this date they are still the best diagnosticians of the Soviet condition.
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Pub Date : 2016-10-01DOI: 10.1080/10611975.2016.1264019
E. Ivanova
Ekaterina Ivanova's article examines two novels that break the remaining taboo against positive depictions of Christianity in Russian science fiction and fantasy, The Obscurant (Mrakobes, 1994) by Elena Khaetsaia, and Ol'ga Chigirinskaia's Heart of the Sword (Serdtse mecha, 2006). After outlining the plots and main characters, she notes the grinding negative scenes the novels include and the potential effect on readers. At the same time, Ivanova sees these novels as evidence that authors are choosing to apply the language and methods of fantastika to the most difficult moral and religious questions.
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Pub Date : 2016-04-02DOI: 10.1080/10611975.2016.1243373
Olga Maeots
Olga Maeots discusses a number of recent works for children and young adults, looking especially at the changes in positive behavior compared to Soviet classics. The authors she treats include Daria Wilke, Irina Zartaiskaia, Iulia Kuznetsova, Ekaterina Murashova, Nikolai Nazarkin and Ilga Ponornitskaia. Maeots finds a continuing thread of influence from classic Soviet author Arkadii Gaidar, who was criticized in the period of perestroika but whose works are still beloved by children and appreciated by adults, including specialists in children's literature.
Olga Maeots讨论了一些最近为儿童和年轻人创作的作品，特别关注与苏联经典作品相比，积极行为的变化。她治疗的作家包括达莉亚·威尔克、伊琳娜·扎尔泰伊斯卡娅、尤利娅·库兹涅佐娃、叶卡捷琳娜·穆拉绍娃、尼古拉·纳扎尔金和伊尔加·波诺尼茨卡娅。Maeots发现经典的苏联作家Arkadii Gaidar持续的影响，他在改革时期受到批评，但他的作品仍然受到儿童的喜爱和成年人的欣赏，包括儿童文学专家。
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Pub Date : 2016-04-02DOI: 10.1080/10611975.2016.1243370
M. Cherniak
The problems of the study of children's books and determining the place of books in modern society are at the epicenter of a complex web of social stereotypes and myths, many of which are interdependent. The status of reading within a predominantly visual culture has changed so significantly that this has significantly affected both the status of children's literature itself and the new model of children's reading. The article also discusses and analyzes the main strategies employed by contemporary prose for young adults.
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