MOTHER, DAUGHTER, HISTORY: EMBODYING THE PAST IN LIUDMILA ULITSKAIA'S SONECHKA AND THE CASE OF KUKOTSKY

Liudmila Ulitskaia, one of contemporary Russia's most widely read authors, was the fist woman to receive the Booker Prize, the nation's most coveted literary award. The novel that secured this honor, The Case of Kukotsky, is a multifaceted narrative focusing on the Kukotsky family--mother Elena, father Pavel Alekseevich, and daughter Tania--and its slow disintegration during the last decades of the USSR. Here, Sutcliffe analyzes this narrative of Ulitskaia, including her first major work, the novella Sonechka.