Art Of Writing Badly: Valentin Kataevs Mauvism And The Rebirth Of Russian Modernism; Author: Borden, Richard; Hardback; Book

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Art Of Writing Badly: Valentin Kataevs Mauvism And The Rebirth Of Russian Modernism

Author: Borden, Richard
Studies in Russian Literature and Theory (Hardcover); Hardback; Book
448 pages
Published: November 1999
Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 081011691X
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The art of writing badly is a phrase the Russian writer Valentin Kataev coined to describe the work that came out of the mauvist movement in Russian literature -- a style of writing that consciously challenged Soviet dogma. In this book, Richard Borden discusses the cultural and political context from which these authors emerged and the development of bad writing.Beginning with aclose examination of the work of Kataev, the best-known progenitor of bad writing, Borden then broadens his study to include the mauvist creations of post-Stalinist writers Aksenov, Bitov, Sokolov, Limonov, Evgeny Popov, and Venedikt Erofeev. Borden shows how these writers' shared mauvistic characteristics reveal major philosophical and aesthetic tendencies in contemporary Russian culture, br

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