Nosso projeto consiste na discussão sobre a literatura e cultura contemporânea na Rússia, especialmente a questão do Pós-modernismo, por um recorte específico: a análise das obras ganhadoras do concurso Russian Booker Prize com enfoque no processo de classificação adotado pelos júris , bem como um apanhado geral da premiação na Rússia. Para tal, analisaremos, em um primeiro momento, os pensadores e críticos mais representativos dessa prosa alternativa ou pós-moderna, sempre com um embasamento histórico. Entender o indivíduo pós-soviético será de fundamental importância para lidar com os temas e personagens dos romances vencedores. Em um segundo momento, nosso trabalho será o de investigar os critérios utilizados pela banca, a fim de tentar encontrar (se houver) algum ponto comum entre algumas das obras ganhadoras. Pensar em tais pontos será de suma importância para compreender os sistemas de valores dos críticos envolvidos nesse processo de premiação, além de colaborar para o enriquecimento de uma nova abordagem analítica da nova literatura russa e de alguns de seus nomes mais prolíficos. / Our project consists in the discussion of contemporary literature and culture in Russia, especially the question of post-modernism, by a specific focus: the analysis of the winning works of the Russian Booker Prize contest focusing on the process of classification adopted by the judges as well as a overview of the awards in Russia. To this end, we will analyze, at first, critical thinkers and most representative of this \"prose alternative\" or post-modern, always with a historical foundation. Understanding the individual post-Soviet is of fundamental importance to deal with the issues and characters of novels winners. In a second step, our work is to investigate the criteria used by banks in order to try to find (if any) a common point among some of the winning works. Think about these points will be extremely important to understand the value systems of the critics involved in the awards process, and contribute to the enrichment of a new analytical approach of the new Russian literature and some of its most prolific names.

Nosso projeto consiste na discussão sobre a literatura e cultura contemporânea na Rússia, especialmente a questão do Pós-modernismo, por um recorte específico: a análise das obras ganhadoras do concurso Russian Booker Prize com enfoque no processo de classificação adotado pelos júris , bem como um apanhado geral da premiação na Rússia. Para tal, analisaremos, em um primeiro momento, os pensadores e críticos mais representativos dessa prosa alternativa ou pós-moderna, sempre com um embasamento histórico. Entender o indivíduo pós-soviético será de fundamental importância para lidar com os temas e personagens dos romances vencedores. Em um segundo momento, nosso trabalho será o de investigar os critérios utilizados pela banca, a fim de tentar encontrar (se houver) algum ponto comum entre algumas das obras ganhadoras. Pensar em tais pontos será de suma importância para compreender os sistemas de valores dos críticos envolvidos nesse processo de premiação, além de colaborar para o enriquecimento de uma nova abordagem analítica da nova literatura russa e de alguns de seus nomes mais prolíficos. / Our project consists in the discussion of contemporary literature and culture in Russia, especially the question of post-modernism, by a specific focus: the analysis of the winning works of the Russian Booker Prize contest focusing on the process of classification adopted by the judges as well as a overview of the awards in Russia. To this end, we will analyze, at first, critical thinkers and most representative of this \"prose alternative\" or post-modern, always with a historical foundation. Understanding the individual post-Soviet is of fundamental importance to deal with the issues and characters of novels winners. In a second step, our work is to investigate the criteria used by banks in order to try to find (if any) a common point among some of the winning works. Think about these points will be extremely important to understand the value systems of the critics involved in the awards process, and contribute to the enrichment of a new analytical approach of the new Russian literature and some of its most prolific names.

The present work analyses the fiction of the post-Soviet Russian writers, Vladimir Sorokin, Vladimir Tuchkov and Aleksandr Khurgin against the background of the notion of post-Soviet Russian postmodernism. In doing so, it investigates the usefulness and accuracy of this very notion, proposing that of ‘post-Soviet neo-modernism’ instead. Common critical approaches to post-Soviet Russian literature as being postmodern are questioned through an examination of the concept of postmodernism in its interrelated historical, social, and philosophical dimensions, and of its utility and adequacy in the Russian cultural context. In addition, it is proposed that the humorous and grotesque nature of certain post-Soviet works can be viewed as a creatively critical engagement with both the past, i.e. Soviet ideology, and the present, the socially tumultuous post-Soviet years. Russian modernism, while sharing typologically and literary-historically a number of key characteristics with Western modernism, was particularly motivated by a turning to the cultural repository of Russia’s past, and a metaphysical yearning for universal meaning transcending the perceived fragmentation of the tangible modern world. Continuing the older Russian tradition of resisting rationalism, and impressed by the sense of realist aesthetics failing the writer in the task of representing a world that eluded rational comprehension, modernists tended to subordinate artistic concerns to their esoteric convictions. Without appreciation of this spiritual dimension, semantic intention in Russian modernist fiction may escape a reader used to the conventions of realist fiction. It is suggested that contemporary Russian fiction as embodied in certain works by Sorokin, Tuchkov and Khurgin, while stylistically exhibiting a number of features commonly regarded as postmodern, such as parody, pastiche, playfulness, carnivalisation, the grotesque, intertextuality and self-consciousness, seems to resume modernism’s tendency to seek meaning and value for human existence in the transcendent realm, as well as in the cultural, in particular literary, treasures of the past. The closeness of such segments of post-Soviet fiction and modernism in this regard is, it is argued, ultimately contrary to the spirit of postmodernism and its relativistic and particularistic worldview. Hence the suggested conceptualisation of post-Soviet Russian fiction as ‘neo-modernist’.