Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction viii
5. Soviet Literature as Theoretical and Historical Problem
6. Soviet Multinational Literature: Approaches, Problems, and Perspectives of Study 3
7. The Role of Aesopian Language in the Literary Field: Autonomy in Question 18
8. Between Universalism and Localism: The Strategies of Soviet Lithuanian Writers and “Sandwiched” Lithuanian Ethnic Particularism 37
9. Contradictions in Lithuanian Literary Field
10. Atheist Autobiography: Politics, the Literary Canon, and Restructured Experience 59
11. Sartre and de Beauvoir: Encounter the Pensive Christ 80
12. The Production of Eimuntas Nekrošius’s Kvadratas as a Palimpsest of Soviet-era Memory 97
13. The Experiences of One Generation of Soviet Poets: Their Illusions and Choices 116
14. The Art of Compromise in Literary Criticism that Legitimated Soviet-Era Modernism 138
15. Hermeneutics of Truth and Compromise in Literatures of Other Soviet Republics
16. Ukrainian Literature of the Late Soviet Period: The History of Three Generations of Poets 161
17. State of Emergency Literature: Varlam Shalamov vs. “Progressive Humanity” 181
18. Reading Literary History through the Archives: The Case of the Latvian Literary Journal Karogs 201
19. Hamlet and Folklore as Elements of the Resistance Movement in Estonian Literature 213
20. Biographical Notes 227
21. Index 233