Soft Matter

Soft Matter

The Poetics of Weakness in Late Soviet Socialism

Vaingurt, Julia

Northwestern University Press

01/2025

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Illustrations
Introduction
Chapter 1. A Typology of Weakness: Lacking Heroes in Literature and Film
Chapter 2. Iulii Kim's Cinderella in the Concentration Camp: Performing Kurt Vonnegut's Gender Subversion in the USSR
Chapter 3. "What a Hero of Weakness!": The Radical Orthodoxy of Evgenii Kharitonov
Chapter 4. "Universal Chicken-heartedness": Low Spirits and Immoderate Meditations in Venedikt Erofeev's Moskva-Petushki
Chapter 5. Enjoy Your Symptom!: Sasha Sokolov's A School for Fools as an Artist's Guide to Psychosis
Chapter 6. The Weakling, the Genius, the Bomb, and the Globe: Writing as Weakness in Andrei Bitov
In Conclusion: A Manifesto
Works Cited
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Weakness; late Soviet; unofficial prose; performance; shared aesthetics; transnationalism; ecology; masculinity; gender subversion; queerness; holy foolishness; intemperance; schizophrenia; graphomania; writer’s block; impotentiality; Superfluous man; holy fool; little man; weak man; Ivan Turgenev; Nikolai Leskov; Lev Tolstoy; Nikolai Gogol; Pierre Bezukhov; Andrei Platonov; Vasil Bykov; Larisa Shepitko; Lao Tsu; stagnation; thaw; Kurt Vonnegut; Rita Rait-Kovaleva; Iulii Kim; Evgenii Kharitonov; Oscar Wilde; Mikhail Kuzmin; Vasilii Rozanov; homosexuality; Venedikt Erofeev; Ivan Kramskoi; Igor Terentev; Vasilii Kamensky; Vasilisk Gnedov; Sasha Sokolov; Jacques Lacan; Lacan; punitive psychiatry; dissidence; dissidents; Soviet dissidents; Andrei Bitov; disability