Toxic Voices: The Villain from Early Soviet Literature to Socialist Realism

by Eric Laursen

Satire and the fantastic, vital literary genres in the 1920s, are often thought to have fallen victim to the official adoption of socialist realism. Eric Laursen contends that these subversive genres did not just vanish or move underground. Instead, key strategies of each survive to sustain the villain of socialist realism. Laursen argues that the judgment of satire and the hesitation associated with the fantastic produce a narrative obsession with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810128659
• ISBN13: 9780810128651
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.4"