RUS4016/RUS5016/COM5016 - 2022/23: Week 3: Liudmilla Petrushevskaia, ‘Hygiene,’ (1990) ‘New Robinson’ (1989) | MyQMUL

Required Readings

Liudmila Petrushevskaya, 'Hygiene,' 'The New Robinson,' 51-74

Liudmila Petrushevskaya, 'Hygiene'/ Гигиена (Russian)

Liudmila Petrushevskaya, 'The New Robinson'/Новые Робинзоны ((Russian)

Edith W. Clowes, ‘The Robinson Myth Reread in Postcolonial and Postcommunist Modes,’Critique, 36:2, (Spring 1995): 145-59.

Eliot Borenstein, ‘Dystopias and catastrophe tales after Chernobyl,’ in Evgeny Dobrenko and Mark Lipovetsky, Russian Literature Since 1991, Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 2015, 86-103.

Further Readings

Dalton Brown, Voices from the Void: the Genres of Liudmila Petrushevskaia, London: Berghahn, 2000 (excerpt).

- Clowes, The Robinson Myth.pdf
- Petrushevskaia, Voices from the Void.pdf