Morris describes the work of Russian writer Popov (b. 1946), emphasizing his contribution to the anti-rationalist, post-modernist movement in Russian literature towards the end of the Soviet
era and since. He covers critical contexts and reception, writing ＂Pornography of the Spirit,＂ an introduction to his short stories, the refusal of significance in the short story, short story
cycles in Metropole and Catalogue, biography and authorial person as narrative objects, making ＂non-existent＂ persons history in The Soul of a Patriot, and resurrecting the soul of a patriot
and refusing the novel in The Splendor of Life and later works. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
