Oh!' Then follows that dreadful pause when it all comes out: my work is on the Soviet Soviet novel, on those hundreds of unreadable texts that serve as examples of Socialist Realism. Usually my interlocutor tries to help me out at first by suggesting, if he knows anything about Soviet literature, that of course that must mean that I am working on one of the more respectable writers, such as Platonov, Bulgakov, Pasternak, or Solzhenitsyn. When, in some chance encounter at a professional gathering, I am politely asked what I 'do,' I find myself in the unhappy position of having to admit that I work on the Soviet novel. Paradise Lost or Paradise Regained? Fiction since Khrushchev 234 Conclusion ~Īppendix A: The Master Plot as Exemplified in the Production Novel and Other Basic Types of Novel of the Stalin Period 255 Appendix B: The Official Short List of Model Novels as Inferred from Speeches to Writers' Union Congresses 261 Notes 265 Select Bibliography Index 287 Three Auxiliary Patterns of Ritual Sacrifice 177 Introdvction 189 9. An Analysis of the Conventional Soviet Novel IV.

The Sense of Reality in the Heroic Age 136 The Stalinist Myth of the 'Great Family' 114 6. The Machine and the Garden: Literature and the Metaphors for the New Society 93 5. Socialist Realist Classics of the Twenties 68 The Positive Hero in Prerevolutionary Fiction 46 3. What Socialist Realism Is and What Led to Its Adoption as the Official Met~ of Soviet Literature c:tz 1 2. Preface ix Note on Transliteration xv Introduction: The Distinctive Role of Sociali~ealism in Soviet Culture Cl.J I. Russian fiction-20th century-History and criticism. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Clark, Katerina. Printed in the United States of America 85 84 83 82 81 987654321 KATERINA CLARK is assistant professor of Russian at Indiana University. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London 1981 by The University of Chicago All rights reserved.

The Soviet Novel History as Ritual KATERINA CLARK

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