Valery Podoroga

Valery Podoroga was one of the most important thinkers of his generation. Here his most famous work is translated into English for the first time. In it, he gives a panoramic view of Russian writing, focusing on the work of Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Andrei Bely. He identifies these authors as pioneers in creating an 'other literature'. This constituted...

The second part of Valery Podoroga's masterly work on the politics of literature and how it is used to construct the world. With a focus on the revolutionary works of Andrei Platonov and the futurist collective Oberiu, Podoroga shows how profoundly the Soviet experiment overturned the traditional expectation of fiction and poetry. He explores how the production of this work...