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The article proposes examining Konstantin Vaginovʼs best-known novel as an experiment in the allegorical reading of Soviet modernity. Analysed to date mainly as a work of metafiction, Trudy i dni Svistonova can be profitably approached in the light of what Walter Benjamin saw as a radical revalorization of allegory in modernism. It is the allegorical mode that denies death and time by mortifying its...
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