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In the current Russian literary scene the writer Denis Osokin 1977 takes on the role of a poet of ethno-cultural diversity In his texts Osokin evokes other languages and cultures In doing so he makes use of various textual operations of mystification which besides a primitivist author s mask include pseudotranslation The aim of this article is to explore this literary technique central to Osokin and its implications for a general understanding of Russian culture and ethno-cultural diversity Thereby the text-centred model of pseudotranslation introduced by the Israeli literary scholar Gideon Toury will be extended and pseudotranslation will be conceptualized as proposed by Brigitte Rath as a mode of reading Rath 2014 a literary technique through which an original is imagined that is not accessible as the original itself but only through this imagination In Osokin s work this original can take on the form of a text a language or an entire culture By imagining an original and or origin that is marked as fictional Osokin undermines identity discourses and destabilizes seemingly stable categories and assumptions such as centre and periphery or majority and minority cultures The aesthetic-poetic and the critical-deconstructionist potential of Osokin s prose will be exemplified by the short prose text Eugen Lwowskis Geschlechtsbeziehung mit einem Spiegel which presents itself as a pseudotranslation from German and the short story Ovsjanki which is a miniature pseudo-epic reviving the Finno-Ugric people of the Merja who were assimilated centuries ago by the Slavic-Russian population

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Von Lipowanern, Merja und Mari: Denis Osokins Poetisierung ethnokultureller Diversität

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