Adventure Narratives in the Early Soviet Union

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Riccardo Nicolosi is full Professor of Slavic Literatures at LMU Munich. His research focuses on the literatures and cultures of Russia and the Soviet Union and South Eastern Europe from the eighteenth to twenty-first centuries. His latest publications which explore the rhetorical and narrative interfaces between literature and science include: Degeneration. Literature and Psychiatry in Late 19th Century Russian Culture (in Russian 2019); and Born to Be Criminal. The Discourse on Criminality and the Practice of Punishment in Late Imperial Russia and Early Soviet Union edited with Anne Hartmann (2017).Brigitte Obermayr is full Professor of East Slavic Literatures and Cultures at Potsdam University. Her research focuses on the literatures and cultures of Russia and the Soviet Union from twentieth to twenty-first centuries: avantgarde theory of literature and culture unofficial late Soviet literature and culture and the political in literary discourse. She is editor of Dmitrii Prigovs lyric oeuvre (facsimile edition forthcoming) and her recent publications include the monograph Datumskunst. Datierte Zeit zwischen Gegebenem und Möglichkeit (2022) and the anthology Phänomenologische und empirische Kunstwissenschaften in der frühen Sowjetunion co-edited with Aage A. Hansen-Löve.