From chudak to mudak? Village prose and the absurdist ethics of Evgenii Popov.(Critical Essay) From: The Modern Language Review | Date: July 1, 2004| Author: Morris, Jeremy | COPYRIGHT 2004 Modern Humanities Research Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The genealogy of the chudak character type in the shorter fiction of Evgenii Popov is considered. In Shukshin and Village Prose the function of the chudak is found to be paradoxical, expressing both conformist and nonconformist views. Popov's modification of the type into the mudak parodies Village Prose and also fulfils ah axiomatic principle of non-significance, part of an aesthetic project related to absurdism and the grotesque. In reading Popov's project in terms of Bataillian ...

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