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Week - 1
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Major trends in 21st-century Russian literature. Genre and linguistic diversity. |
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Week - 2
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Ye. Vodolazkin. Laurus. Archaisms, Church Slavonicisms, and elements of hagiographic vocabulary. |
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Week - 3
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V. Sorokin. Oprichnik'in Bir Gunu. A stylization of pre-Petrine Russia, combined with futuristic grotesque and political satire. Demonstrates a conceptualist translational shift. |
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Week - 4
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Z. Prilepin. Sankya. A striking example of "new realism." An analysis of the translation of youth slang, socio-political, and radical vocabulary of the 2000s, as well as the conveyance of high emotional intensity and sharp syntax. |
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Week - 5
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V. Pelevin. Generation P. An abundance of Anglicisms, the realities of pop culture and marketing of the 90s |
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Week - 6
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M. Şişkin, Mektupların Romanı. A combination of polyphony and impeccable classical style. Allows students to explore how the translator recreates the author's rhythmic prose, subtle psychologism, and "watercolor" vocabulary. |
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Week - 7
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G. Yakhina, Züleyha Gözlerini Açıyor. The text is imbued with Tatar flavor, Turkisms, and specific Soviet realities (dispossession, Gulag). Reverse transfer of Turkic elements. |
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Week - 8
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L. Ulitskaya. Medeya ve Çocukları. A dense family epic with biblical and mythological allusions, rooted in the multicultural Crimean context. Important for analyzing the Old Testament tone and
the everyday realities of the 20th century. |
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Week - 9
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T. Tolstaya, Böcü. A post-apocalyptic lubok, a total language game, an abundance of the author's neologisms and deliberate colloquial distortions of words. The most complex and most fascinating material for translation criticism. |
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Week - 10
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M. Stepanova, Belleğin Anısına. A genre of autofiction and intellectual essayism. A vast layer of intertextuality, quotations, and hidden allusions to European and Russian culture. |
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Week - 11
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L. Petruşevskaya. Evler, Cinler, Perdeler. A short prose form. A specific, everyday "tale," a syntactic stream of consciousness, an abundance of conversational clichés and everyday black humor.
The difficulties of conveying informal colloquial speech. |
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Week - 12
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V. Makanin, Underground. A fundamental, existential text about the fate of the Soviet and post-Soviet intelligentsia. Complex syntactic constructions, a profound philosophy of the crisis of the era. |
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Week - 13
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S. Aleksiyeviç, İkinci El Zaman. Documentary prose, the polyphony of real human voices.
The main challenge for translation criticism is how the translator handles oral speech, Soviet phraseological units, and "Sovietisms." |
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Week - 14
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Yu. Buyda. Sıfır Treni. Metaphorical, dense prose at the intersection of harsh realism and grotesque myth. A compact but concentrated text, convenient for detailed paragraph-by-paragraph comparison. |
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