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In Wingless Desire in Modernist Russia, Yelena Zotova argues that
the Russian Modernist prose of the 1920s underwent a peculiar
transformation due to a series of radical shifts in societal
values, with each subsequent change thwarting Russia's volatile
axiological hierarchy. While the New Economic Policy of 1921
provided economic relief for some, it was an ideological rollback
for others. Industriousness and love of technique and technology,
typically associated with Pushkin's Salieri, became virtues, while
the intrinsic value of God-given talent and non-utilitarian art
were officially nullified by the Bolshevik state. Under these
conditions, a new literary type emerged and envy, described as
"wingless desire" by Russia's chief poet Alexander Pushkin,
obtained new ownership as the envied became the envier.
Superimposing twentieth-century theories of envy onto Mikhail
Bakhtin's "Author and Hero in the Aesthetic Activity" (1923),
Zotova proposes that Salieri's envy could be the wingless embryo of
the Bakhtinian authorship.
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