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Record Nr.

UNINA9910765856703321

Autore

Kolchinsky Irene E.

Titolo

The revival of the Russian literary avant-garde : the thaw generation and beyond / / Irene Kolchinsky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

München, Germany : , : Verlag Otto Sagner, , 2001

©2001

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (206 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Slavistische Beiträge ; ; Band 406

Disciplina

891.709/11

Soggetti

Literature, Experimental

Russian literature

Soviet Union Avant-garde (Aesthetics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

This study is devoted to the authors who initiated the revival of the Russian avantgarde tradition, which had been brutally suppressed by the Soviet authorities in the mid- 1930s. The revival of this tradition took place in the literary underground, where writers who endeavored to fulfil this challenging task largely remained until the collapse of the Soviet regime. Most of them emerged from obscurity only at the beginning of the 1990s, which explains why their dramatic and fascinating history has been so little examined by scholars. Although the situation has changed significantly in the last decade, during which some insightful studies have appeared in both Russia and the West, the subject obviously requires more thorough and systematic exploration. This book aims to narrow important gaps in the scholarship on the Russian literary avantgarde during its least investigated period.