The Last Soviet Avant-Garde: Oberiu - Fact, Fiction, Metafiction (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521028349)

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.

Author: Graham Roberts
ISBN-10: 0521028345
ISBN-13: 9780521028349
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/02/2006
Pages: 292
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.66d