Russian Language Journal
PARODY AS CRITICISM AND META-CRITICISM: Unmasking Zoshchenko's "Nose"
Keywords
Leopold Averbakh, Aleksandr Arkhangel'skii, proregime literary, parodies
Abstract
Leopold Averbakh's forward to a 1930 collection of parodies by Aleksandr Arkhangel'skii shows ambivalence on the part proregime literary camp about the uses to which parody and sat be put.1 The critic praises Arkhangel'skii for his "fruitful and interesting work," yet spends most of the article faulting him f speaking out strongly enough against the remnants of "bourgeois" culture in Soviet literature.2 Averbakh's final statement rev reason for the critic's ambivalence: "Он [пародист] до считаться с тем, что пародия - друг и товарищ литерату критики."3 In other words, literary criticism and parody mu hand in hand to guide the culture of the new society in the ideological dire
Recommended Citation
Olson, L. (2000). PARODY AS CRITICISM AND META-CRITICISM: Unmasking Zoshchenko's "Nose". Russian Language Journal, 54(1). https://doi.org/10.70163/2831-9737.1417
