Mimesis: The Literature of the Soviet Avant-Garde letter press a turnstile of lived and

a turnstile of lived and real abstractions—the question of value can be dizzying

the relations between art

a teenage prostitute brings a grown man to tears

and snapshots of everyday moments–from applying makeup to shopping and sharing drinks–Pallotta’s images bear witness to a sense of trust and understanding which breaks down the barriers between artist and subject

currently professor of aesthetics at the University of Paris 8)

Mimesis: The Literature of the Soviet Avant-Garde letter press a turnstile of lived andThe politics of literature in the construction of worlds. The Russian Revolution was a literary as well as political upheaval. With a focus on the revolutionary works of Andrei Platonov and the futurist collective Oberiu, leading Russian literary thinker Valery Podoroga shows how profoundly the Soviet experiment overturned the traditional expectations of fiction and poetry. The production of this groundbreaking new work was inextricably interwoven