Audun Johannes Mørch

Associate Professor - Russland, Sentral-Europa og Balkan

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My academic interests are Russian literature from different eras. In classic Russian literature, my main interests are Nikolai Gogol and Fyodor Dostoevsky, but I have also worked with Lev Tolstoi and Anton Chekhov. In Soviet Russian literature I am especially interested in Andrei Platonov, but also in other authors from its early period, such as Mikhail Bulgakov and, recently, Varlam Shalamov. As far as Post-Soviet literature is concerned, main interests are Viktor Pelevin and Pavel Krusanov. More lately, I have also been interested in indigenous Russian literature, Iurii Rytkheu in particular.

Within the field of literary theory, I am interested in Bakhtin’s genre theory, chronotope, and Lotman’s semiotic analyses of literary spaces. Lately I have also been interested in analyses of literary texts in the light of Modernism and Post-Modernism.

Tags: Russian, Russian literature, Literary Utopias and Anti-utopias, Indigenous literature, Arctic, Bakhtins

Mørch, Audun Johannes (2021). The Chronotope of Realism: Tolstoi's Sevastopol Stories. In Andrew, Joe & Reid, Robert (Ed.), Tolstoi and the Evolution of His Artistic World. Brill Academic Publishers. ISSN 9789004465626. p. 102–115.
Mørch, Audun Johannes (2017). Between the Primordial, the Modern and the Post-Modern: The Chukchi Writer Yuri Rytkheu. In Hansson, Heidi & Ryall, Anka (Ed.), Arctic Modernities. The Environmental, the Exotic and the Everyday. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISSN 978-1-5275-0290-1. p. 213–231.
Haarberg, Jon & Mørch, Audun Johannes (2015). Å lese Tsjekhovs "Studenten". Norsk Litteraturvitenskapelig Tidsskrift. ISSN 0809-2044. 18(1), p. 4–15.
Mørch, Audun Johannes (2014). The chronotope of the primordial: Yuri Rytkheu's When the whales leave. Nordlit. ISSN 0809-1668. p. 17–32.
Mørch, Audun Johannes (2012). The Chronotope of Freedom: House of the Dead. In Reid, Robert & Andrew, Joe (Ed.), Aspects of Dostoevskii. Art, Ethics and Faith. Brill|Rodopi. ISSN 978-90-420-3514-0. p. 51–66.
Mørch, Audun Johannes (2012). Nye Milestolper i Norsk Poesi. Jo Eggen som gjendikter fra russisk til norsk. In Karlsen, Ole (Eds.), Nordisk samtidspoesi. Særlig Jo Eggens forfatterskap. Oplandske Bokforlag. ISSN 9788275181945. p. 263–280.
Mørch, Audun Johannes (2011). P'esa "Sarmanka": tema razlozenija. In Kornienko, Natal'ja V. (Eds.), "Strana filosofov" Andreja Platonova. Problemy tvorcestvo. Vypusk 7. IMLI RAN. ISSN 9785920803986. p. 83–88.
Mørch, Audun Johannes (2008). In Search of the Grand: Pavel Krusanov. CFE Conference Papers Series. ISSN 1654-2185. 3(3), p. 127–138.
Mørch, Audun Johannes (2005). Reality as Myth:Pelevins Capaev i Pustota. Scando-Slavica. ISSN 0080-6765. 51, p. 61–81.
Mørch, Audun Johannes (2004). Gogol's The Overcoat: Revaluing all values. Essays in Poetics. ISSN 0308-888X. 29(9), p. 96–112.
Mørch, Audun Johannes (2002). The Irony of Platonov's "Gradov Town". Essays in Poetics. ISSN 0308-888X. 27, p. 114–122. Show summary
The article investigates and analyzes different kinds of irony used by Andrej Platonov in the story "Gradov Town".
Mørch, Audun Johannes (1999). Platonov's Èfirnyj trakt: A Tragedy in Prose. Russian Literature. ISSN 0304-3479. 46, p. 219–232. Show summary
The author suggests that the Russian "short novel" - povest' - unlike the novel may be written as a tragedy in prose, being composed according to a "tragic rhythm" and representing a tragic Weltanschauung. Furthermore, he shows how the Russian writer Andrej Platonov based his own tragic vision as expressed in the short novel "Èfirnyj trakt" on among other things his knowledge of physics.Platonov's tragic vision is discussed in the light of ancient Greed tragedies and Peter Wessel Zapffe's theories of the tragic.
Mørch, Audun Johannes (1999). Platonov's Èfirnyj trakt: A Tragedy in Prose. Russian Literature. ISSN 0304-3479. 46, p. 219–232. Show summary
The author suggests that the Russian "short novel" - povest' - unlike the novel may be written as a tragedy in prose, being composed according to a "tragic rhythm" and representing a tragic Weltanschauung. Furthermore, he shows how the Russian writer Andrej Platonov based his own tragic vision as expressed in the short novel "Èfirnyj trakt" on among other things his knowledge of physics.Platonov's tragic vision is discussed in the light of ancient Greek tragedies and Peter Wessel Zapffe's theories of the tragic.
Mørch, Audun Johannes (1999). Platonov's Happy Moscow and Bulgakov's Heart of a Dog: Prosaic Imaginations of a New Man. Essays in Poetics. ISSN 0308-888X. 24, p. 143–157. Show summary
The author explores how the notion of a new man is developed in Russian thought and literature. He goes on to discuss how this notion is treated by the writers Bulgakov and Platonov in Heart of a Dog (1925, published in Russia 1987) and Happy Moscow (1932-1936, published 1991). respectively.
Mørch, Audun Johannes (1998). Formy khudozhestvennogo prostranstva v romannoi proze A. Platonova. Sprache und Erzählhaltung bei Andrej Platonov(=Slavica Helvetica 58). 58, p. 267–276.
Mørch, Audun Johannes (1997). Andrej Platonov's "Reka Potudan'": A Father's Mission. In Egeberg, Erik; Mørch, Audun Johannes & Selberg, Ole Michael (Ed.), Life and Text. Essays in Honour of Geir Kjetsaa on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday. Meddelelser. Slavisk-baltisk avdeling, Universitetet i Oslo. ISSN 82-90250-75-4. p. 181–190.
Mørch, Audun Johannes (1995). K probleme antiutopiceskich strategij v romane "Cevengur". In Kornienko, Natal'ja V. (Eds.), "Strana filosofov" Andreja Platonov: problemy tvorcestva. Vypusk 2. IMLI RAN. ISSN 5201132391. p. 134–140.

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Mørch, Audun Johannes (1998). The Novelistic Approach to the Utopian Question. Det historisk-filosofiske fakultet, Universitetet i Oslo/Faculty of Arts, University of Oslo. ISBN 82-00-12995-0. 206 p. Show summary
A central theme in The Novelistic Approach to the Utopian Question: Platonovs Chevengur in the Light of Dostoevskij's Anti-Utopian Legacy is the clash between two forms of discourse: novelistic prose and utopian ideology. The author shows that the anti-utopian strategies Dostoevskij applies against the utopian ideology of contemporary nihilists in the text of his novel The Possessed (1872) are repeated, but in entirely different forms by Platonov in his novel Chevengur (written 1927, published 1988) when he focuses on the Bolsheviks' communist project . Basing his argumentation on the theories of M. M. Bakhtin and others, the author shows that the different anti-utopian strategies found in Dostoevskij's and Platonov's texts are closely connected with the dialogic and spatial nature of the novel genre.
Egeberg, Erik; Mørch, Audun Johannes & Selberg, Ole Michael (1997). Life and Text. Essays in Honour of Geir Kjetsaa on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday. Meddelelser. Slavisk-baltisk avdeling, Universitetet i Oslo. ISBN 82-90250-75-4.
Mørch, Audun Johannes & Selberg, Ole Michael (1997). Life and Text. Essays in Honour of Geir Kjetsaa on the Occasion of his 60th birthday. Institutt for Øst-Europeiske og Orientalske Studier, Universitetet i Oslo. ISBN 8290250754. 260 p.

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Mørch, Audun Johannes (2020). Solid verk om Aleksandr Pusjkin. Dag og Tid. ISSN 0803-334X. p. 26–27.
Mørch, Audun Johannes (2019). Åpen Bok. [Radio]. NRK.
Mørch, Audun Johannes (2019). Verdibørsen. [Radio]. NRK.
Mørch, Audun Johannes (2019). Salongen. [Radio]. NRK.
Mørch, Audun Johannes (2011). Vladimir Majakovskij, "Mennesket. Om dette". Aschehoug & Co. ISSN 9788203199721.
Mørch, Audun Johannes (2011). Kulturnytt. [Radio]. NRK.
Mørch, Audun Johannes (2011). Diktafon. [Radio]. NRK.
Mørch, Audun Johannes (2010). Humørfylt anti-utopi. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839. p. 12–12.
Mørch, Audun Johannes (2010). En pingvin for lite. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839. p. 16–16.
Mørch, Audun Johannes (2010). Mørk moskovitt. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839. p. 11–11.
Mørch, Audun Johannes (2010). Om å oversette Majakovskij til norsk.
Mørch, Audun Johannes (2010). Lev Tolstoj - dikter og guru.
Mørch, Audun Johannes (2010). Russisk litteratur fra Pusjkin til Pasternak.
Mørch, Audun Johannes (2010). Tolstoy's Anti-Romantic Chronotope:The Sevastopol Stories.
Mørch, Audun Johannes (2010). Fjodor Dostojevskij. Innledning.
Mørch, Audun Johannes (2010). Lev Tolstoj. Innledning.
Mørch, Audun Johannes (2010). Nikolaj Gogol. Innledning.
Mørch, Audun Johannes (2010). Om oversetterutdannelsen ved Universitetet i Oslo.
Mørch, Audun Johannes (2010). Bok i P2. Program om forfatteren Mikhail Sjisjkin. [Radio]. NRK.
Mørch, Audun Johannes (2009). Bok i P2. Nikolaj Gogol. [Radio]. NRK.
Mørch, Audun Johannes (2009). Пьеса "Шарманка" Андрея Платонова: Идея и художественное пространство.
Mørch, Audun Johannes (2009). Aleksander Pusjkin.
Mørch, Audun Johannes (2009). Nikolaj Gogol: Paradoksenes dikter.
Mørch, Audun Johannes (2009). Nikolaj Gogol.
Mørch, Audun Johannes (2008). The Chronotope of the Primordial in Jurij Rytkheu's Kogda kity ukhodjat.
Mørch, Audun Johannes (2007). Boris Pasternak. [Radio]. NRK.
Mørch, Audun Johannes (2007). Konstantin Ciolkovskij. [Radio]. NRK.
Mørch, Audun Johannes (2007). In search of the grand: Pavel Krusanov.
Mørch, Audun Johannes (2007). Aleksander Pusjkin - Russlands nasjonaldikter.
Mørch, Audun Johannes (2007). Om å oversette Bakhtin.
Mørch, Audun Johannes (2006). En dag i Ivan Denisovitsj' liv, Tanke og tendens. Sånn er Livet. [Radio]. NRK P2.
Mørch, Audun Johannes (2006). Utopia and Anti-Utopia in Russian Thought and Literature.
Mørch, Audun Johannes (2005). Pavel Krusanov og romanen Ukus angela, Engelens bitt (2000).
Mørch, Audun Johannes (2003). Mikhail Bakhtin: Latter og dialog. Utvalgte skrifter. Cappelen Damm Akademisk. ISSN 82-02-19863-1.
Ludvigsen, Sten & Mørch, Audun Johannes (2002). Categories at work: Small-group collaboration in co- located and distributed settings.
Mørch, Audun Johannes (2002). Gogol¿s ¿The Overcoat¿: A revalueing all values. Show summary
The paper represents a new reading of Gogol's "The Overcoat", in which particularly influential earlier readings (notably that of Chizhewskij) are revised and critisized. The main issue is a rereading of the inherent value system of "The Overcoat": What is good and what is evil?
Mørch, Audun Johannes (2000). En praktikants bekjennelser. Dyade. ISSN 0332-5792. 2, p. 35–43. Show summary
Artikkelen er en vurdering av Kunderas tanker om romangenren slik de kommer til uttrykk i "Romankunsten" og "Forrådte testamenter".
Mørch, Audun Johannes (2000). The Irony of Platonov's "Gorod Gradov". Show summary
Different forms of irony and irony working on different levels in Andrei Platonov's "Gorod gradov" are discussed in this paper.
Mørch, Audun Johannes (2000). Ironi i Andrej Platonovs prosa. Show summary
I foredraget belyses forskjellige former for ironi og det vises hvorledes disse kommer til uttrykk hos forfatteren Andrej Platonov, særlig i fortellingen "Gorod gradov"
Mørch, Audun Johannes (1998). Andrej Platonov, en gjenoppdaget skatt. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.). ISSN 0804-3116.
Mørch, Audun Johannes (1998). Dostoevskij's ¿Besy¿ and the Utopian Notion of the New Man. Show summary
DOSTOEVSKIJ'S BESY AND THE UTOPIAN NOTION OF THE NEW MAN. Since Chernyshevskij's famous "anti-novel" ¿Chto delat'¿, whose subtitle was ¿iz rasskazov o novych ljudjach¿, Russian utopian thinking has been markedly preoccupied with the image of a new man. The main implication of his book was that the essence of bright new utopian society was not in the props, but in the citizen of this society himself, the new man. The revolutionary nihilists that appear as characters in Dostoevskij's ¿Besy¿ are all possessed by different ideas of utopia, and in their ideologies we may also discern different casts of the new man. Still, there is a common principle behind all the new men in ¿Besy¿. To Dostoevskij, the quest for a new man is a pretence to divinity, and he recognizes such a pretence as the sin of hubris. The result is an inversion, or a negation. The new man in Dostoevskij's poetic universe is not divine, but either demonized or turned into a mass-creature resembling a herd-animal. The result, in other words, is either the opposite of a divine being (a demon) or something less than a man (a herd-animal), or even combinations of the two. Essentially, Russian utopianists dreamed of a ¿novyj chelovek¿ rising from the ashes of the lishnij chelovek.. The theme of the new man is later treated by such writers as Platonov, Bulgakov, Olesha and others.

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