The Last Soviet Avant-Garde
Subtitle: OBERIU - Fact, Fiction, Metafiction (Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 2, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780521028349
Subjects: Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Russian; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); Russian & Former Soviet Union; Literary Criticism & Collections / Russian & Former Soviet Union; Ob??eriu; Obçeriu; 20th century; History and criticism; Literature, Experimental; Russian literature; Soviet Union
First sentence: In this chapter I shall first make a number of general comments concerning Russian modernism and the avant-garde, and its challenge to elevated notions of the artist, before discussing the nature of that challenge in OBERIU fiction.