Vladimir Sorokin’s Discourses

“This volume, the second entry in Academic Studies Press’s newly launched series Companions to Russian Literature, makes admirably clear the stakes of Vladimir Sorokin’s writing, his major interventions, and the historical currents that have changed him from an underground Soviet writer publishing in the West to a ‘classic in his lifetime’ (prizhiznennyi klassik) who addresses his Russian audience from Germany. … Uffelmann’s readings are persuasive and balanced throughout; I particularly appreciated his remarks on the specular intertwining of Stalinist and Hitlerian totalitarianisms, Sorokin’s running association with Tolstoy, and the important if always contingent opposition of ‘victim’ to ‘perpetrator’ texts.”

—Jacob Emery, Indiana University, Bloomington, Russian Review

“This exhaustively researched and subtly argued monograph … is able to chart the writer’s creative evolution with its attendant ‘continuity in discontinuity’. … The Companion, to my mind, will remain the definitive study of Sorokin’s work 1985–2017, whatever may come next.”

—David Gillespie, Tomsk State University, Slavonic and East European Review