Sorokin, trauma, and Russian history

The article addresses the specificity of Russian history as it appears in Sorokin's oeuvre. On the one hand, Sorokin's texts are immersed in history; on the other hand, the history is characterised by non-historic discreteness and non-dialectics. Sorokin constantly breaches the foundations of historiographic narrative, percepting any historical epoch through his traumatic experience. It comes out that the writer's trauma is caused by the collapse of the Soviet symbolic world; consequently, the texts devoted to transition from the Soviet to Post-Soviet world have a special place in Sorokin's heritage.