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After Andrei Platonovʼs main texts Chevengur and ‘Kotlovan’ had “returned” to Russian culture the reception of his work underwent several stages. While the first studies were dedicated to the poetic structure and the genesis of his texts, the perestroika period initiated inquiries into their utopian and political background. Later on, one could observe an expansion into the fields of philosophy, mythopoetics,...
In this paper the author discusses Boris Akuninʼs novel Altyn-tolobas. The two plot lines in the novel (the seventeenth-century journey of Kornelius von Dorn and the journey to the “new Russia” by his descendant) are shown to run parallel, as they both appear to involve the transfer from “civilized” European cultural space to “uncivilized” Russia. However, it is demonstrated that this simple opposition...
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