Roberts Graham. The Last Soviet Avant-Garde: OBERIU - Fact, Fiction, Metafiction

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 292 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Russian Literatur). — ISBN-10 : 0521028345; ISBN-13 : 978-0521028349.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.Introduction: OBERIU - the last Soviet avant-garde iAuthors and authorityThe art of public speaking: Russian modernism and the avant-garde
Literature as system: Russian formalism and the Bakhtin circle
OBERIU - Nikolay Zabolotsky, Nikolay Oleinikov, and Igor' Bakhterev
Carnivalizing the author? Daniil Kharms
Writing for a miracle: Kharms's The Old Woman as menippean satire
What a time to tell a story: Aleksandr Vvedensky
Dialogues of the dead: Vvedensky's Minin and Pozharsky
The artist as hermit: Konstantin Vaginov
The author loses his voice: the novels of Konstantin VaginovRereading readingAddressing the reader: Russian modernism and the avant-garde
Text as dialogue: from Russian formalism to the Bakhtin circle
OBERIU and the reader: Zabolotsky, Oleinikov, Bakhterev
Stop reading sense: the prose of Daniil Kharms
Picture this: Christmas at the Ivanovs' by Aleksandr Vvedensky
The reader in the text: The Labours and Days ofSvistonov by Konstantin VaginovLanguage and representationFrom realism to 'real5 art: Russian modernism and the avant-garde
Neighbouring worlds, imaginary realities: the chinari
OBERIU: The Association for Real Art
From the authority of language to the languages of authority: Daniil Kharms
Language games and power play: Elizaveta Bam
Time, death, God, and Vvedensky
The poverty of language: Vvedensky's A Certain Quantity of Conversations
Worlds beyond words: Konstantin Vaginov
Art as play: Konstantin Vaginov's BambocciadeConclusion: OBERIU - between modernism and postmodernism?Notes

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