Course Title: Russian Comic Novels from the Early Soviet Period
Instructor: Dr. Jeffrey Brooks, PhD
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January 29, 2025 - March 5, 2025 (6 Sessions)
Wednesday, 06:00PM ET -07:30PM ET
Virtual via Zoom
Course Description: Artists reacted to the increasingly grim political landscape of the 1920s and 1930s by producing some wonderful comic novels. Students will read Ilya Ilf’s and Evgeny Petrov’s laugh-out-loud masterpiece¬, The Twelve Chairs; Mikhail Bulgakov’s inspired fantasy, The Master and Margarita; and either Bulgakov’s satiric Heart of a Dog, or Evgeny Zamyatin’s dystopian We, which inspired George Orwell’s 1984. Russian Comic Novels from the Early Soviet Period. Artists reacted to the increasingly grim political landscape of the 1920s and 1930s by producing some wonderful comic novels. Students will read Ilya Ilf’s and Evgeny Petrov’s laugh-out-loud masterpiece¬, The Twelve Chairs; Mikhail Bulgakov’s inspired fantasy, The Master and Margarita; and either Bulgakov’s satiric Heart of a Dog, or Evgeny Zamyatin’s dystopian We, which inspired George Orwell’s 1984.
ASSIGNED MATERIALS:
Ilf and Petrov, The Twelve Chairs (Northwestern University Press World Classics), translated by
Anne O. Fisher (2011).
Mikhail Bulgakov The Master and Margarita, (Abrams, 2021) translated by Diana Burgin and
Katherine Tiernan O'Connor.
Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog, (translated by Mirra Ginsburg, Grove Press, reprint 1994).
Evgeny Zamyatin We, (Penguin Classic Edition, translated by Clarence Brown, 1993; also
available in kindle)).
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