The Internal World Abroad
New Boundaries in Post-Soviet Russian Literature
Deutsche Fassung
Abstract
How have the cultural boundaries in contemporary Russian literature shifted? Evtushenko’s dictum – “In Russia, a poet is more than just a poet” – is no valid. Viktor Erofeev even buried Soviet literature. With that, several boundaries were overcome, those between literature as high art and fiction for the masses, between the refined world of the ivory tower and pop culture. To interpret Russia’s late-blossoming postmodernism, it is useful to apply the term “internal world abroad” to the literary scene.
(Osteuropa 9/2005, pp. 81–90)