Carnival Culture and the Soviet Modernist Novel
Author: Craig Brandist
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1997-01-12
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 1349251208
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the work of five Soviet prose writers - Olesha, Platonov, Kharms, Bulgakov and Vaginov - in the light of the carnivalesque elements of Russian popular culture. It shows that while Bakhtin's account of carnival culture sheds considerable light on the work of these writers, they need to be considered with reference to both the concrete forms of Russian and Soviet popular culture and the changing institutional framework of Soviet society in the 1920s and 1930s.