Phenomenology of Oil in Soviet and Post-Soviet Literature

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dc.identifier	ECF_article_12616
dc.title	Phenomenology of Oil in Soviet and Post-Soviet Literature
dc.contributor.author	Caprioglio Nadia
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/the-venice-journal-of-environmental-humanities/2023/1/phenomenology-of-oil-in-soviet-and-post-soviet-lit/
dc.description.abstract	The essay explores the cultural meaning and social significance of oil in Soviet and post-Soviet Russian culture through the analysis of three literary case studies. The analysis shows that, from the anthropocentric optimism of the Soviet era to the awareness of our times about oil as an uncontrollable ‘object’, oil is a hybrid of nature and culture that holds a significant place in Russian literature. The first story is Boris Pilnyak’s Gorod vetrov (City of Winds, 1928), the second is Isaac Babel’s Neft’ (Petroleum, 1934), and the third is authored by Dmitry Bykov and was published in 2017 with the same title: Neft’ (Oil).
dc.relation.ispartof	Lagoonscapes
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 3 \| Issue 1 \| June 2023
dc.issued	2023-06-28
dc.dateAccepted	2023-04-12
dc.dateSubmitted	2023-03-27
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2785-2709
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/LGSP/2785-2709/2023/01/007
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Boris Pilnyak
dc.subject	Contemporary Russian literature
dc.subject	Dmitry Bykov
dc.subject	Energy Humanities
dc.subject	Isaac Babel
dc.subject	Petrofiction

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Nadia Caprioglio Università degli Studi di Torino, Italia

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abstract

The essay explores the cultural meaning and social significance of oil in Soviet and post-Soviet Russian culture through the analysis of three literary case studies. The analysis shows that, from the anthropocentric optimism of the Soviet era to the awareness of our times about oil as an uncontrollable ‘object’, oil is a hybrid of nature and culture that holds a significant place in Russian literature. The first story is Boris Pilnyak’s Gorod vetrov (City of Winds, 1928), the second is Isaac Babel’s Neft’ (Petroleum, 1934), and the third is authored by Dmitry Bykov and was published in 2017 with the same title: Neft’ (Oil).

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June 28, 2023

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April 12, 2023

Submitted

March 27, 2023

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Keywords: Isaac Babel • Contemporary Russian literature • Dmitry Bykov • Energy Humanities • Boris Pilnyak • Petrofiction

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