num_pages: 292
description: This is the first comprehensive study of the group of avant-garde Soviet writers who styled themselves OBERIU, "The Association for Real Art". Graham Roberts reexamines commonly-held assumptions about OBERIU, its identity as a group, its aesthetics, its relationship to the formalists and the Bakhtin circle, and its place within Russian and European literary traditions. Roberts concludes by showing how the self-conscious literature of OBERIU--its metafiction--occupies an important transitional space between modernism and postmodernism.
language: English
title: The Last Soviet Avant-Garde: OBERIU - Fact, Fiction, Metafiction
titlecomplete: The Last Soviet Avant-Garde: OBERIU - Fact, Fiction, Metafiction (Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature)
ratings_count: 3
series: Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature
publisher: Cambridge University Press