Reading Russian Literature, 1980–2024

Otto Boele is Associate Professor in Russian Literature at Leiden University, The Netherlands. He teaches 19th century literature, post-Soviet culture, and Russian film. He is the author of The North in Russian Romanticism (1996) and Erotic Nihilism in Late Imperial Russia (2009). He is co-editor of Post-Soviet Nostalgia (2019). Dorine Schellens is Assistant Professor in German and Russian Literature and Culture at Leiden University, The Netherlands. Her research focuses on intersections between contemporary Russian and (East-)German cultural history. She is the author of Kanonbildung im transkulturellen Kontext (2021) on the reception of Moscow conceptualism, and co-editor of Literaturkontakte (2018).

• Introduction.- Part I. Literary Production and Consumption in Times of Transition.- Chapter 1. Dmitrii Ravinskii – Mass Reading in an Era of Change.- Chapter 2. Chapter 2. Josephine von Zitzewitz – The Kopilka Project: Collaborative Translation of Russian Anti-War Poetry.- Part II. Revisiting Literary Models of the Past.- Chapter 3. Otto Boele – Reading and Worshiping Nikolai Rubtsov. Evolution of a Literary Cult. Chapter 4. Katharine Hodgson – Yevgenii Yevtushenko: The Last Soviet Poet in the PostSoviet Afterlife.- Chapter 5. Alexandra Smith – Reconfiguring Personal Experiences and Creative Communities as Literary Models: Liudmila Ulitskaia’s Life-Writing of the 2010s.- Part III. The Role of the Reader Between the 1990s and Today.- Chapter 6. Boris Noordenbos – Plotting Communities: Pelevin’s Meta-Paranoid Fiction.- Chapter 7. Dorine Schellens – Literature as a ‘Thread of Noise’: Kirill Medvedev’s Dialectical Approach to Memory and Literary Consumption Since the 1990s.- Part IV. Creating Publics in the Digital Sphere: Feminist and LGBTQ+ Literature.- Chapter 8. Ksenia Robbe – Feminist Writing/Reading in Contemporary Russia: Creating Counterpublics Through Languages of Sociality and Care.- Chapter 9. Manon Junggeburt – The Reception of Young Adult LGBTQ+ Books on TikTok: The Case of Days of Our Lives.