Reconstructing the canon

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"This volume contains articles about and by some of the most important Russian writers of the 1980s, a period of great changes in the cultural life of Russia when the controls of Soviet communism gave way to a wide diversity of unfettered writing (one extreme example of which is Vladimir Sorokin), which sometimes seem to represent disillusion with literature itself. A variety of critical approaches matches the diversity of emigre and metropolitan Russian writers considered here."--BOOK JACKET.