CHAPTER 2 “We Are Incapable of Creating the Simplest Criminal Plot . . .”: The Formalist Theory of Prose and Russian Experimental Adventure Literature of the 1920s

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introductory Remarks ix
5. Part A THEORY AND HI STORY OF ADVENTURE NARRATIVES IN THE EARLY SOVIET UNION (1920s–1930s )
6. CHAPTER 1 New Adventures for the Soviet Present. Conceptualizations and Debates Surrounding a Contested Popular Literary Genre 3
7. CHAPTER 2 “We Are Incapable of Creating the Simplest Criminal Plot . . .”: The Formalist Theory of Prose and Russian Experimental Adventure Literature of the 1920s 21
8. CHAPTER 3 Poetics of Adventure in the 1920s (from Shklovsky to Bakhtin) 43
9. CHAPTER 4 The Magic of Cinema: Vladimir Vainshtok and a Socialist Film Poetics of Adventure 65
10. Part B CASE STUDIES
11. CHAPTER 5 Munchhausen’s Adventures in Early Soviet Fiction 89
12. CHAPTER 6 Ostap Bender: From an Adventurer to a Bureaucrat. Transformations of the Early Soviet Rogue Narrative in The Twelve Chairs (1928) and The Little Golden Calf (1931) 116
13. CHAPTER 7 Meta-Adventures: Vsevolod Ivanov’s and Viktor Shklovsky’s Novel Iprit in the Context of the Early Soviet Boom of Adventure Literature 139
14. CHAPTER 8 Leaping over Death: Adventurous Agency in Fyodor Gladkov’s Cement (1925) 165
15. CHAPTER 9 Andrei Platonov’s Novel Chevengur as a Journey of Adventure 185
16. CHAPTER 10 Revolutionary Adventures in China: Internationalism and Early Soviet Adventure Fiction 197
17. CHAPTER 11 Zinaida Rikhter’s Flight Adventure: An ‘Adventure Travel Sketch’ 215
18. Contributors 241
19. Index 245