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Flesh to Metal – Soviet Literature and the Alchemy of Revolution

Autor Rolf Hellebust
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 sep 2003
That science-fiction future in which technology would make everything very good--or very bad--has not yet arrived. From our vantage point at least, no age appears to have had a deeper faith in the inevitability and imminence of such a total technological transformation than the early twentieth century. Russia was no exception.--from the introduction
In the Soviet Union, it seems, armoring oneself against the world did not suffice--it was best to become metal itself. In his engaging and accessible book, Rolf Hellebust explores the aesthetic and ideological function of the metallization of the revolutionary body as revealed in Soviet literature, art, and politics. His book shows how the significance of this modern myth goes far beyond the immediate issue of the enthusiasm with which the Bolsheviks welcomed such a symbolic transfiguration and that of our own uneasy attraction to the images of metal flesh and machine-men.
Hellebust's literary examples range from the famous (Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago) to the forgotten (early Soviet proletarian poets). To these he adds a mix of non-Russian references, from creation myths to comic book superheroes, medieval alchemy to Moby-Dick. He includes readings of posters, sculpture, and political discourse as well as cross-cultural comparisons to revolutionary France, industrial-age America, and Nazi Germany. The result is a fascinating portrait of the ultimate symbols of dehumanizing modernity, as refracted through the prism of utopian humanism.--Sven Spieker, University of California, Santa Barbara
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ISBN-13: 9780801441530
ISBN-10: 0801441536
Pagini: 234
Dimensiuni: 159 x 236 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Editura: MB – Cornell University Press
Locul publicării:United States

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"That science-fiction future in which technology would make everything very good-or very bad-has not yet arrived. From our vantage point at least, no age appears to have had a deeper faith in the inevitability and imminence of such a total...