An Anatomy Lesson of Narrated Adventure. Theorizing Adventure Literature in the Early Soviet Union

该项目从文学理论、小说和文化政治的角度探讨了早期苏联文学(从20世纪20年代到40年代)中叙事冒险的维度。在探索这些线索时，该项目以这样一个假设为起点，即所分析的人工制品可以被视为讲述冒险的一堂‘解剖学课’：这些材料揭露并分析了叙述冒险的中心问题。考核期分为两个阶段。第一个十年(1920-1930)被前卫美学所主导，其特点是叙事冒险的盛行和流行，这在欧洲现代主义背景下是独一无二的。在第二个十年(1930-1940)，在社会主义现实主义形成的条件下，由于文化政治问题的变化，冒险反而失去了接受，似乎消失了。根据这一假设，该项目的目的是展示在哪些形式，到目前为止还没有被考虑，叙事冒险正在坚持，以及参与形成社会主义现实主义。为了证明这种坚持和参与，该项目旨在修改对从早期苏联风格向斯大林式纪念主义转变时期的看法。因此，这个项目是基于冒险参与了新型社会主义人类的形成这一工作命题，同样，似乎坚持放映探索新苏联现实并测试描绘它的方式的电影。最后，叙事冒险似乎提供了早期社会主义现实主义混合体裁的基本结构，如集体书籍或纪实小说。

The project explores the dimensions of narrated adventure in early Soviet literature (from the 1920s to the 1940s) in terms of literary theory, fiction and cultural politics. In exploring these strands the project takes as its starting point the hypothesis that the analysed artefacts may be regarded as an ‘anatomy lesson‘ of narrated adventure: the material exposes and, indeed, analyses central issues of narrated adventure. The examined period is divided into two stages. The first decade (1920–1930), being dominated by avantgardistic aesthetics, is characterized by a prevalence and popularity of narrated adventure that is unique in the context of European modernism. In the second decade (1930–1940), under the conditions of the formation of Socialist Realism, on the contrary, adventure loses acceptance due to changing issues in cultural politics and seems to disappear. Against this assumption the project aims to show in which forms, that have so far been unconsidered, narrated adventure is persisting as well as participating in the formation of Socialist Realism. In proving such persistence and participation, the project aims to contribute to a modified view on the period of transformation from early Soviet style into Stalinistic monumentalism. Thus, the project is based on the working thesis that adventure participates in the formation of the new socialist type of human being, and, likewise, seems to persist in films showing “adventure-expeditions” that explore the new Soviet reality and test ways of depicting it. Finally, narrated adventure seems to provide fundamental structures in early Socialist Realist hybrid genres such as collective books or documentary novels.