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Women's Lies, a novel by Ludmila Ulitskaya (2003)
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The novel is divided into chapters that seem short stories, but all fit into the same plotline and feature the same characters:
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1. Diana;
2. Brother Yuri;
3. Finish of the Plot;
4. The Phenomenon of Nature;
5. Good Luck;
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Get Lost, Crocodile, a novel by Marina Vishneventskaya (2002)
In Vishnevetskaya’s Came the Moon out of Mist and Get Lost, Crocodile! the search for female identity is formulated as a drama in the genre of lyric parable. The heroines question what it means to “be a woman” in the contradicting societal ideologies of the post-Soviet epoch. The distorted implementation of the laws of capitalist consumption often does not coincide with the patriarchal model of the family, which, in turn, is discredited by cynical views of the Soviet citizen. According to Vishnevetskaya, the heroine can be “freed from the spell,” in other words reveal her essence, or “extinguish”— erase that which is overly incomprehensible. These metaphysical operations either unearth the woman’s essence, or turn her into an automaton. Notably, revealing the trapped female essence or vice versa, repressing it is carried out not so much by the external world, not by the man whom she chose as a lover or who chose her, but by the woman herself.
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