• Metafiction and Soviet literature; reflecting on fiction - Leonid Leonov; facts versus figures - Marietta Shaginyan; discrowning the writer - Konstantin Vaginov; knowing the artist - Veniamin Kaverin; re-reading, rewriting; rewriting literary history.

'His use of several of the ideas of Mikhail Bakhtin is very productive ... The bibliography, notes and translations of important quotations (which are usually, and most conveniently, followed immediately by the Russian originals) are excellent.'Martin Dewhurst, University of Glasgow, Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 46, No. 1, 1994

• Metafiction and Soviet literature; reflecting on fiction - Leonid Leonov; facts versus figures - Marietta Shaginyan; discrowning the writer - Konstantin Vaginov; knowing the artist - Veniamin Kaverin; re-reading, rewriting; rewriting literary history.

'His use of several of the ideas of Mikhail Bakhtin is very productive ... The bibliography, notes and translations of important quotations (which are usually, and most conveniently, followed immediately by the Russian originals) are excellent.'Martin Dewhurst, University of Glasgow, Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 46, No. 1, 1994

• Metafiction and Soviet literature; reflecting on fiction - Leonid Leonov; facts versus figures - Marietta Shaginyan; discrowning the writer - Konstantin Vaginov; knowing the artist - Veniamin Kaverin; re-reading, rewriting; rewriting literary history.

'His use of several of the ideas of Mikhail Bakhtin is very productive ... The bibliography, notes and translations of important quotations (which are usually, and most conveniently, followed immediately by the Russian originals) are excellent.'Martin Dewhurst, University of Glasgow, Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 46, No. 1, 1994