The monograph is devoted to Soviet literature of fact as the implementation of a program of production art in the field of literature. At the center of the study is the figure of Sergei Tretyakov, who with his biography connects the first (pre-revolutionary) experiments of futuristic zaum with the first congress of Soviet writers, and, accordingly, most of the theoretical debates of the period. The author traces Tretyakov’s different ways of “being a writer” within the framework of the Soviet revolution of language and media – in production lyrics, psychotechnical drama and “our epic - the newspaper”. Each of the stages of these experiments requires a modification of the analytical apparatus from a purely semiotic through the psychophysiology of perception to media analysis of media. The final part of the book is devoted to how the literature of fact merges with similar trends in the German and French left avant-gardes (often under the direct influence of Tretyakov’s ideas, as in the case of Benjamin and Brecht), and then continues in such a post-mortem form of factography as Varlam’s “new prose” Shalamov. Pavel Arsenyev is a poet and literary theorist, editor-in-chief of the magazine [Translit], laureate of the Andrei Bely Prize (2012). Doctor of Science from the University of Geneva (Docteur ès lettres, 2021), researcher at the University of Grenoble (UMR “Litt&Arts”) and Fellow of the Collège de France, specialist in the material and technical history of literature of the 19th–20th centuries.