Aug 31, 2025

2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

EN 346 Russian Fiction

(4 Credits)
This is a survey of the themes and narrative techniques of Russian fiction, with special emphasis on select works of Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgeniev, Babel, Pasternak, and Solzhenitsyn. It covers Russian history in outline, from the founding of the Kievan State to the emergence of new Russia. The course approaches individual works as cultural products of their times.

Prerequisite: Junior standing or above.