
Mimesis
The Literature of the Soviet Avant-Garde
Valery Podoroga(Autor*in)
Verso Books (Verlag)
Erschienen am 2. Juli 2024
Buch
Softcover
192 Seiten
978-1-80429-489-5 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
The Russian Revolution was a literary as well as political upheaval. With a focus on the revolutionary works of Andrei Platonov and the futurist collective Oberiu, leading Russian literary thinker Valery Podoroga shows how profoundly the Soviet experiment overturned the traditional expectations of fiction and poetry. The production of this groundbreaking new work was inextricably interwoven with the political and historical debates of the time.
This volume expands on Podoroga's critical exploration of the analytic anthropology of literature. Here he delves into the ways literature can be used in 'world-building', both in terms of what happens inside the narrative and how it reflects the external world. He explores the function of the work outside of its time: both as a means to project itself into the future and as a document of a former age. How are we to read the past through these works of the imagination?
With an introductory essay from the author's daughter, Ioulia Podoroga.
This volume expands on Podoroga's critical exploration of the analytic anthropology of literature. Here he delves into the ways literature can be used in 'world-building', both in terms of what happens inside the narrative and how it reflects the external world. He explores the function of the work outside of its time: both as a means to project itself into the future and as a document of a former age. How are we to read the past through these works of the imagination?
With an introductory essay from the author's daughter, Ioulia Podoroga.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
Podoroga has long been heralded as a quasi-patron saint of post-Soviet philosophy. . . Podoroga liberates classics of Russian literature from questions of historicism or fidelity to an external reality. * Marxism and Philosophy *Weitere Details
Sprache
Englisch
Verlagsort
London
Großbritannien
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Produkt-Hinweis
Broschur/Paperback
Klebebindung
Maße
Höhe: 233 mm
Breite: 157 mm
Dicke: 25 mm
Gewicht
235 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80429-489-5 (9781804294895)
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Valery Podoroga was a leading figure at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Science until his death in 2020.
Inhalt
Introduction: The Analytical Anthropology of Literature by Ioulia Podoroga
PART I. Eunuch of the Soul
Introduction: Homo ex machina
1 Positions of Reading
2 History as Nature
3 The Inventor of Machines
PART II. The Fainting of the World
Introduction: Fear of High Noon
1 Alea: A General Theory of Chance
2 Reverse Rotation
3 Conversations: A Community of Friends in Time
PART I. Eunuch of the Soul
Introduction: Homo ex machina
1 Positions of Reading
2 History as Nature
3 The Inventor of Machines
PART II. The Fainting of the World
Introduction: Fear of High Noon
1 Alea: A General Theory of Chance
2 Reverse Rotation
3 Conversations: A Community of Friends in Time

