Writers at work : Russian production novels and the construction of Soviet culture

Writers at work : Russian production novels and the construction of Soviet culture / Mary A. Nicholas.

Recent research on the Soviet period of Russian literary history has eliminated many gaps in our understanding of that complex era. With few exceptions, however, little critical attention has been directed to the most important of all Soviet genres: the production novel, or proizvodstvennyi roman. S...

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Main Author: Nicholas, Mary A., 1954-
Corporate Author: Bucknell University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Russian fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Production (Economic theory) in literature.
Production (Economic theory) in literature
Russian fiction
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • The cost of constructing Envy: Iurii Olesha and the Soviet production novel
  • How she worked on Hydrocentral: Marietta Shaginian and the changing Soviet author
  • Building "Novye Vaiuki": Ilf and Petrov map the production novel
  • (Re)constructing the production novel: Boris Pilniak, Mahogany, and The Volga Falls to the Caspian Sea
  • Finding space in Time, forward! Kataev and writers at work
  • Deconstructing Soviet work: Andrei Platonov and the end of the production novel.

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