Truth through distortion: a Bakhtinian reading of “The Russian dreambook of color and flight” by Gina Ochsner
Автор: Jones Danielle Ann
Журнал: Вестник Пермского университета. Российская и зарубежная филология @vestnik-psu-philology
Рубрика: Литература в контексте культуры
Статья в выпуске: 2 (22), 2013 года.
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Ochsner is a well-known contemporary American short-story writer and novelist. Most recently, she has published “The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight”, which, like her other books, is written in magical realism. This story is set in 1994 in Perm, Russia and told through the eyes of four very different characters in a world that is fantastic and absurd. Ochsner is a kind of modern-day Dostoevsky in her employment of multiple voices, magical realism, laughter and the carnivalesque. “The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight” is an important example of how an author can rearrange this consciousness and hence provide a paradigm for global writers to come.
Novel, carnivalesque, magical realism, poliphonism, humor
Короткий адрес: https://sciup.org/14729204
IDR: 14729204
Список литературы Truth through distortion: a Bakhtinian reading of “The Russian dreambook of color and flight” by Gina Ochsner
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- Bakhtin, Mikhail. Rabelais and His World. Trans. by Helene Iswolsky. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984b.
- Bakhtin, Mikhail. Speech Genres and Other Late Essays. Ed. Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist, trans. Vern McGee. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1986.
- Holquist, Michael. Dialogism. London: Routledge, 2002.
- Ochsner, Gina. The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2009.
- Ochsner, Gina. “The True World: When Consensual Reality Is Not Enough.”http://www.angelfire. com/wa2/margin/pcp2.html (дата обращения: 16.03.2013).
