Week 9. Vladimir Makanin, 'The Prisoner from the Caucasus' (1995)
Required Readings
Vladimir Makanin, ‘Prisoner from the Caucasus,’ in Vladimir Makanin, The Loss: A Novella and Two Stories, trans. Byron Lindsey, Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 1998, 117-54 (see pdf below).
Маканин, "Кавказский пленный' (Русский текст)
Bruce Grant, ‘The Good Russian Prisoner: Naturalizing Violence in the Caucasus Mountains,’ Cultural Anthropology, 20: 1 (2005), pp. 39-67.
Mark Lipovetsky, ‘Makanin's Existential Myth in the Nineties: "Escape Hatch," "The Prisoner from the Caucasus" and Underground,’ in Routes of Passage: Essays on the Fiction of Vladimir Makanin, edited by Lindsey Byron and Tatiana Spekktor, Columbus, OH: Slavica Publishers, 2008.97-107.
Further Readings
Anisimova, Irina, ‘The Post-Soviet 'Orient' in Stories by Vladimir Makanin and Liudmila Petrushevskaia,’Canadian Slavonic Papers Revue Canadienne des Slavistes 59:1-2, (2017), 1-20.
