Revolutionary experiments : the quest for immortality in Bolshevik science and fiction
Krementsov examines a particular fascination with the dream of immortality and the place of science and fiction in its pursuit in Russia during roughly a decade that followed the country's political revolutions of 1917. It argues that contemporary scientific experiments aimed at the control over life, death, and disease inspired many Russian writers to conduct their own literary experiments with the ideas and techniques offered by experimental biology and medicine, which found expression in both popular-science writings and a new literary genre, science fiction
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (xiii, 268 pages) : illustrations, portraits
9780199992997, 9780199992980, 9780199370016, 0199992991, 0199992983, 019937001X
868975173
Prologue: science and fiction
"The Ray of Life": science in revolutions
"Professor's Head": isolated organs
"Neither life, nor death": anabiosis
"The Billionaire's Last Will": hormones and institutions
"The Dog's Heart" and monkey glands
Quo vadimus?: human biology and human destiny
Epilogue: an unending quest
English