Russian Experimental Fiction: Resisting Ideology After Utopia

by Edith W. Clowes

Book Overview

In the three decades following Stalin's death, major underground Russian writers have subverted Soviet ideology by using parody to draw attention to its basis in utopian thought. Referring to utopian writing as diverse as Defoe's Robinson Crusoe , Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground , and Orwell's Animal Farm , they have tested notions of truth, reality, and representation. They have gone beyond their precursors by experimenting with the tensions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069103222X
• ISBN13: 9780691032221
• Release Date: August 1993
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 10.0"