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050 00 $aPG3022$b.E74 1994
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100 1 $aErlich, Victor,$d1914-2007.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50012294
245 10 $aModernism and revolution :$bRussian literature in transition /$cVictor Erlich.
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bHarvard University Press,$c1994.
300 $a314 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [281]-304) and index.
505 0 $aI. Waiting for the End: The Symbolist Ambiance -- II. The Futurist Rebellion -- III. Four Masters Facing Their Age -- IV. The Battle of Manifestoes -- V. Master and Disciple: Evgeny Zamyatin and Lev Lunts -- VI. Two Pioneers of the Soviet Novel: Konstantin Fedin and Boris Pilnyak -- VII. Color and Line: The Art of Isaac Babel -- VIII. The Masks of Mikhail Zoshchenko -- IX. Utopia as Apocalypse: The Anguished Quest of Andrey Platonov -- X. A Shop of Metaphors: The Short Brilliant Career of Yury Olesha -- XI. Neo-Futurism and the Dilemmas of Viktor Shklovsky -- XII. The Turnings of Ilya Ehrenburg -- XIII. End Game: Mayakovsky and Others.
520 $aThe period before 1917 was a brilliant one for Russian literature marked by the innovations and experimentation of modernism. With the Bolshevik seizure of power, a parallel process of drastic social innovation and experimentation began. How did revolution in the arts and revolution in society and politics relate to one another?
520 8 $aVictor Erlich, an eminent authority on modern Slavic culture takes up this question in Modernism and Revolution, a masterful appraisal of Russian literature during its most turbulent years.
520 8 $aProbing the salient literary responses to the upheaval that changed the face of Russia, Erlich offers a new perspective on that period of artistic and political ferment. He begins by revisiting the highlights of early twentieth century Russian poetry - including the works of such masters as Akhmatova, Mandelstam, Pasternak - and goes on to examine the major prose writers of the first post-revolutionary decade.
520 8 $aIn an inquiry that ranges over poetry, criticism, and artistic prose, Erlich explores the work of, among others, Symbolists Bely, Blok, and Ivanov, Futurists Khlebnikov and Mayakovsky, Formalists Jakobson and Shklovsky, the novelists Pilnyak and Zamyatin, the short-story master Babel, the humorist Zoshchenko. He delineates a complex relationship between Russian literary modernism and the emerging Soviet state.
520 8 $aThe avant garde's modus vivendi with the new regime was short-lived: early artistic experimentation and cultural diversity gave way to regimentation and conformity, with collaboration for some and silence, exile, or death for the others.
520 8 $aAs this regime now recedes into history, along with the passions and prejudices it aroused, the accomplishments and failures of writers caught up in its early revolutionary fervor can at last be seen for what they were. From a perspective formed over a lifetime of study of Russian literature, Victor Erlich helps us look clearly, judiciously, and deeply into this long obscured part of the literary past.
650 0 $aRussian literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115992
650 0 $aModernism (Literature)$zSoviet Union.
651 0 $aSoviet Union$xHistory$yRevolution, 1917-1921$xLiterature and the revolution.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117103
852 00 $bglx$hPG3022$i.E74 1994