RUS 402 - Twentieth Century Russian Literature in Translation

Course unit(s): 1
Meets GAR: Meets general academic requirement DE and HU.
Students study the works of Bunin, Sholokhov, Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn, Brodsky, and Alexievich as well as their experiences with and relationship to the Bolshevik revolution, ethnic and religious prejudice, censorship, the GULAGs, violence, and injustice. Harshly persecuted, self-exiled, or expelled from Russia, these philosophical frontrunners earned Nobel Prizes and recognition by the West. Short stories, novels, poetry, as well as literary criticism from 1917 to the present will be analyzed and discussed.