Writing Rogues: The Soviet Picaresque and Identity Formation, 1921–1938 9780228015062
How Russian literature about socially marginal characters came to define what it means to be Soviet. In Writing Rogues
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Table of contents :
Cover
Copyright
Contents
Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One Wartime Autobiographies
1 Ehrenburg’s and Shklovsky’s Autobiographies as Self-effacement
2 Travels and Travails in Julio Jurenito and A Sentimental Journey
Part Two The NEP-Era Rogue and the Idea of Soviet Literature
3 From Odessa to Petrograd
4 Grabber, Kynik, and Thief
Part Three The Soviet Picaresque and the Stalinist Rogue
5 Travelling and Building Stalin’s Soviet Union
6 “In Every Life There Is at Least One Interesting Plot”
Conclusion The Picaresque and the Ways of the World
Notes
Bibliography
Index
