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