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Chekhov in the Times of Lockdown: Gary Shteyngart’s Our Country Friends as a “Fable of Our Broken Time”.
Bryla, Martyna Marika
(2023)
Inspired by the theme of the 2023 PAAS Conference, this paper approaches Our Country Friends (2021) by Russian-American author Gary Shteyngart as a novel which is at once atemporal and painfully contemporary. -
“Constructing selfhood and otherness in the East-West context"
Bryla, Martyna Marika (2018-06-11)
Since his debut in 2002, Gary Shteyngart, a Russian-American author of Jewish extraction has not only garnered popularity among readers, but also inspired critical interest from reviewers and scholars. While Shteyngart’s ... -
“[I]t was a cost priced into living in America:” Exploring normalization of selective social privilege and economic inequality in Gary Shteyngart’s Lake Success (2018)
Bryla, Martyna Marika (2023)
This paper argues that Gary Shteyngart uses his protagonist's privileged position as a departure point for exploring the ongoing corruption of the formative narrative of the US identity, the American Dream, in contemporary ... -
Postdependent Eastern Europe: Critical Avenues and Literary Representations.
Bryla, Martyna Marika (2020)
Is Eastern Europe postcolonial? This question has animated scholarly debate in the region and beyond for two decades, and while there is no conclusive answer to it, postcolonial theory has been used to illuminate Eastern ... -
Rewriting the American Dream for the Trump Era and Beyond in Gary Shteyngart’s Lake Success (2018)
Bryla, Martyna Marika (Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos. AEDEAN, 2022)
This essay analyses Gary Shteyngart’s Lake Success (2018) as an inquiry into the formative narratives of the American identity—the American Dream and self-making—through the story of a hedge-fund manager, Barry, who abandons ... -
Tracking the transnational trickster: Gary Shteyngart and his protagonists
Bryla, Martyna Marika (Nordic Association of English Studies, 2018-12-31)
The purpose of this paper is to analyze Gary Shteyngart’s protagonists in the light of his works, particularly his debut work, The Russian Debutante’s Handbook (2002) and his memoir, Little Failure (2014). Drawing on the ...