ABSTRACT

YetHuyssen'sapproachcannotbeborrowedwhole-cloth,sincenew spiritualfreedomfounditsexpressioninmanyotherRussianliterarymovementsfromthesixtiesthroughtheeighties:fromthetraditionalist"prophecies"ofAlexanderSolzhenitsynandtheauthorsof"VillageProse"(Vasily Shukshin,VasilyBelov,ViktorAstafiev,ValentinRasputin)tothegrotesquerealismofAbramTertz,AleksandrGalich,FazilIskander,andVladimirVoinovich;fromtherebelliousnessofVladimirVysotskytothe peculiarexistentialismof"warfiction"(VasilBykov,GrigoryBaklanov, KonstantinVorobiev,VyacheslavKondratiev);fromthefictionofthesocalled"fortysomething"writers(sorokaletnie)(VladimirMakanin,Anatoly Kurchatkin,AnatolyKim,RuslanKireev),withtheiremphasison"private life,"totheneo---avant-garde(itselfamotleycrewthatencompassessuch widelydiverseauthorsasVladimirKazakov,GennadyAigi,Vsevolod Nekrasov,AndreiVoznesensky,andEduardLimonov).