... metamorphoses” emerge in the work of two émigré writers. Aleksei Remizov relied on estrangement in linguistic and genre experiments in exile that encompass historical changes in the Russian language at home and abroad. The poet Vladislav Khodasevich argued for the creative continuity of Russian literature...

... phenomenon takes place. Russian literary language, originally alien to Russia, has penetrated the human mas- ses so deeply as to level many dialectical varieties. Literature, in the mean- while, began to care for dialects (Remizov, Klyuev, Esenin, and others, unequal in talent but close...

..., people, society, the current world. To apply his own nomenclature, they are all ‘‘motivateddistanced, camouflaged, materi- alized—and in real-life terms at that, not just realistic. Thus, an anecdote about the writer Alexei Remizov (Shklovsky 1971 [1923]: 21, 24) alludes to 164 Poetics Today 27:1...