Although metafiction has been the subject of much critical and
theoretical writing, this is the first full-length study of its
place in Soviet literature. Focusing on metafictional works by
Leonid Leonov, Marietta Shaginyan, Konstantin Vaginov, and Veniamin
Kaverin, it examines, within a broadly Bakhtinian theoretical
framework, the relationship between their self-consciousness and
their cultural and political context. The texts are shown to
challenge notions about the nature and function of literature
fundamental to both Soviet and Anglo-American criticism. In
particular, although metafictional strategies may seem designed to
confirm assumptions about the aesthetic autonomy of the literary
text, their effect is to reveal the shortcomings of such
assumptions. The texts discussed take us beyond conventional
understandings of metafiction by highlighting the need for a
theoretically informed account of the history and reception of
Soviet literature in which the inescapability of politics and
ideology is no longer acknowledged grudgingly, but is instead
celebrated.
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