The Last Soviet Avant-Garde: OBERIU - Fact, Fiction, Metafiction
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...
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A comprehensive study of the OBERIU group of avant-garde Soviet writers.
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.
