The last Soviet avant-garde : OBERIU--fact, fiction, metafiction
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The last Soviet avant-garde : OBERIU--fact, fiction, metafiction
（Cambridge studies in Russian literature）
Cambridge University Press, 1997
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Bibliography: p. 237-267
Includes index
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Description
This is a comprehensive study of a group of avant-garde Soviet writers active in Leningrad in the 1920s and 1930s who styled themselves OBERIU, 'The Association for Real Art'. Graham Roberts re-examines commonly held assumptions about OBERIU, its identity as a group, its aesthetics and its place within the Russian and European literary traditions. He focuses on the prose and drama of group members Daniil Kharms, Aleksandr Vvedensky, and Konstantin Vaginov; he also considers work by Nikolay Zabolotsky and Igor Bakhterev, as well as the group's most important 'fellow-traveller', Nikolay Oleinikov. He places OBERIU in the context of the aesthetic theories of the Russian formalists and the Bakhtin circle. Roberts concludes by showing how the self-conscious literature of OBERIU - its metafiction - occupies an important transitional space between modernism and postmodernism.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on transliteration and convention
- Introduction: OBERIU - the last Soviet avant-garde
- 1. Authors and authority
- 2. Rereading reading
- 3. Language and representation
- Conclusion: OBERIU - between modernism and postmodernism?
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
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