The Last Soviet Avant-Garde: OBERIU - Fact, Fiction, Metafiction

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Cambridge University Press, Jun 5, 1997 - Literary Collections - 274 pages
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 re-examines 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 SH its metafiction SH occupies an important transitional space between modernism and postmodernism.
 

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Authors and authority
22
Rereading reading 165
75
Language and representation
120
OBERIU between modernism
171
Notes
179
Bibliography
237
Index
268
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