Other voices, other Russias
Ludmila Ulitskaya and Vladimir Sorokin
History, novel, print
Debate
The novelist Ludmila Ulítskaya, a leading figure in contemporary Russian literature, and the writer and playwright Vladimir Sorokin, the main representative of postmodern Russian literature, reflect with the journalist Xavi Ayén on the keys to understand Russia's relationship with its own history.
The history of Russia is also the history of a desire to remain at the center of the universal story. The successive vicissitudes of this will —the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, post-communist Russia— affect and are inscribed in the lives and literary works. They are also very present in the traces of the current war. Ulitskaya and Sorokin, two of the greatest Russian novelists of the last decades, have dealt with this issue with works such as Soniechka (published in Spanish by Anagrama, 2022) or Day of the Oprichnik (published in Spanish by Alfaguara, 2008) and in this conversation they will help us to understand this link between Russia and its own history.
Moderators: Xavi Ayén
Participants: Ludmila Ulitskaya, Vladimir Sorokin
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Ludmila Ulitskaya and Vladimir Sorokin
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The history of Russia is also the history of a desire to remain at the center of the universal story. The successive vicissitudes of this will —the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, post-communist Russia— affect and are inscribed in the lives and literary works. Ulitskaya and Sorokin, ...
