Socialist realism: an impossible aesthetic

Abstract

Foreword Translator's note Introduction Postscript Part I. Cacaphony at the First Writers' Congress of 1934 on the Subject of 'Socialist Realism' 1. The congress 2. Socialist realism Part II. The Realist Obsession in Nineteenth-Century Russia: 3. Interdiscursivity and filiations 4. The discursive base of realism in Russia 5. The course of criticism 6. The course of fiction: from the superfluous man to the earliest representation of the new man 7. Displacements and repetitions: the discursive pedestal of realism consolidated Part III. The Obsession With Transparency: 8. The establishment of monologism 9. In search of the new realism: battles over the discursive base 10. The new figural trajectory of the hero 11. Socialist realism and its figures: fictional constraints on the 'positive hero' Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index of names.

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