The Last Soviet Avant-Garde OBERIU - Fact, Fiction, Metafiction [Hardcover]

A comprehensive study of the OBERIU group of avant-garde Soviet writers.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.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.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.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. In this context, RoblC)