...Margaret Litvin Abstract Visualizing Soviet internationalism as a student dormitory, this essay identifies a new transnational subgenre, the Soviet dormitory novel, and analyzes four examples: Nazim Hikmet’s Life’s Good, Brother (Turkish, 1964); Ismail Kadare’s Twilight of the Eastern Gods...

... realities and a commentator on issues that continue to trouble our era. The second article, by Margaret Litvin, addresses autobiographical novels set in the Moscow dormitories designated for students from Soviet-aligned countries and non-Russian republics who were training to become writers...

... on an intimate basis and often for a very long time, by having grown up in the same village or the same area of town, by sharing a dormitory in a boarding school or a military academy, and by philosophizing all night long in the halls of residence of British or French universities. (157) The leaders...

... and then there was a brief noise, a clumsy sprawl and a sudden darkness. COMPAR ATIVE LITERATURE / 394 The order of the details wasn’t clear, but some minutes later six or seven men who shared the surrounding bunks entered the dormitory bearing Collis like a corpse on their shoulders . . . . The bulb was broken...

... to eating is suitably inverted: “He placed his fist in the palm of his hand, contemplating it, as though a pimento that might suddenly open, reveal other more delicious things” (16). This follows on from a recollection of masturbating in a dormitory in his adolescence, so that the only kind of eating Berg...

... of sexual revolution, Vâlâ narrated more than once an anecdote about the “free love” movement among the KUTV students who had written on their dormitory beds, “Damn Marriage! Celebrate Free Love!” ( Vâ-nû, “Seyahat Mektupları” ; Vâ-nû, Bu Dünyadan 314–15 ). Vâlâ’s situation was further complicated by his...