This course is designed to acquaint students with developments in Russian literature over the past decade. The emphasis will be on comprehension of the texts by representatives of different trends in (post)modern Russian literature (Victor Pelevin, Tatiana Tolstaya, Vladimir Sorokin, Boris Akunin, Mikhail Shishkin), as well as the most interesting currents in Russian poetry after Brodsky (Sergei Gandlevsky, Timur Kibirov, Vera Pavlova, and the ‘Babylon’ group). Special attention will be paid to the rise of a new generation of writers (‘Web-literature’). Students will write three short response papers and a final exam