Abstract
Between engineers: love and life of the socialist realist text. On V. Azhaev's Novel, Far from Moscow Describing the «bonds of men with men» and other manifestations of «patriarchal heterosexuality» at work in V. Azhaev's Far from Moscow (Stalin Prize for 1948) and other socialist realist novels of the Stalin era, the author investigates the function of literary creation, authorship and biography during this very special period of the construction of socialism within one country. The recently discovered archives of the writer show that, from the labor camps of the Far East to the editorial board of K. Šimonov' s Novyi Mir, Azhaev's novel engages in a journey from which not only the text but also the author's subjectivity and the literary categories of gender and love emerge as scattered entities, for the great «benefit» of the collective author and reader, united in a paradoxical «polyphony» of sorts.
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