Nicholas, Mary A.

Writers at Work : Russian Production Novels and the Construction of Soviet Culture. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (358 pages)

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- 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 Vasiuki": 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 -- A Conclusion and a Beginning -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index.

9780838758083


Russian fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Production (Economic theory) in literature.


Electronic books.

PG3098.4 -- .N53 2010eb

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