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Set in Kiev, Vienna, Israel, Portugal, England and Moscow, the stories of ONE-WAY TICKET, on which this seminar is based, are concerned with the duplicitous world of the emigre, Russian patriots and expatriates, and depict the idiosyncratic nature of their encounters with the Western world, which Zinik had been recording for the last twenty years since his departure from the Soviet Union in 1975. The person, equipped with double vision, is capable in his consciousness to remain on both sides of the border at one and the same time. As a result, Zinik's alter ego, his emigre narrator, gets caught in the most hilarious emotional traps that the author uses to expose peculiar ideological predicaments of his generation of displaced persons and superfluous men, following the great tradition of Russian literature and connecting it to its Western roots. The seminar is about life and the art of writing, about some professional secrets of creating a story and translating it into the new milieu. Zinik's stories will be read in Russian; his sources in English and Russian, according to the students' abilities. Students will be asked to write their own double-world stories, in Russian or English.
COURSE FORMAT: Lecture/Discussion
Level: UGRD Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: HA RUSS Grading Mode: Student Option
Prerequisites: RUSS201
Last Updated on MAR-24-2000
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