55-5209 CRW: Contemporary Russian Authors

This course requires that students research reading and writing processes behind selected novels and short stories by principal masterpiece authors of the Soviet period from 1920 to present, such as Bulgakov, Babel, Olesha, Erofeev, Platonov, Sokolov, and others. Drawing upon authors’ journals, notebooks, and letters, as well as upon more public writing and interviews, students examine the personal and social contexts in which writers read and respond to what they read. Students give oral and written responses as writers to material.

3 Credits
Requisites COREQUISITES: 55-5101 Fiction Writing I or 55-6101 Fiction Writing I or 55-5102 Fiction Writing II or 55-6102 Fiction Writing II or 55-5104 Prose Forms or 55-5105 Advanced Prose Forms or

55-5106 Fiction Writing: Advanced

or 55-6110 Thesis Development or 55-4101 Fiction Writing I or 55-1101 Fiction Writing I