Please reply to the list so all can benefit - thanks, AJ. See Nick Baron's query below.
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Dear Nick,
I'll pass on your query to some Russian lists, but UK universities tend not to reply to this sort of
query (American lists are more helpful).
School teachers may help so I'll try them. How about search engines: Google of course, but also the
newer one called "Alltheweb" which according to the technician at Leeds Uni is the same but better.
Amazon website? Prisoner of the Mountains is linked through its title to Tolstoy's story as I'm sure
you know.
Robert Chandler is very knowledgeable about modern translations so I'll copy this message to him,
maybe he can help.
All the best,
Andrew.

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From: "Nicholas Baron" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 10:52 AM
Subject: Contemporary cultural studies


Dear Andrew

I wonder if any of your subscribers can help me with this query. I'm teaching a course this year on
Russian 20th century cultural history. Being an historian, I'm not very familiar with the more
contemporary materials. I'd like to ask students to read some of Pelevin's short stories (I had in
mind 'A werewolf problem in central Russia', 'Vera Pavlovna's Ninth Dream', 'Tai Shou Chuan USSR'),
and to watch 'Prisoner of the Mountains' ('Kavkazskii plennik') and 'Brat'.

Does anyone know of any decent critical studies on Pelevin or these two films.

Also more general studies of contemporary representations of national identity and masculinity in
literature, film and the visual arts.

The students can only read English, konechno, and texts should be readily available in the UK  ...

Thanks in advance,

Nick



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University of Nottingham
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