Abstract
Mass industrialization and accelerated modernization that took place in the USSR during the First Five-Year Plan had a significant impact on almost all Soviet artists. One of the most radical avant-garde movements of that time was the project of constructivist artists, usually referred to as the Literature of Fact (hereinafter LF).
One of the impulses for this project was the interest in the processes associated with the media revolution. Changes in the concepts of temporality and the perception of time in general are also closely related to the development of technical progress in the modernity, which is often overlooked by many literary scholars focused on the priority of spatial relations.
Therefore, this paper is dedicated to the main theorist of LF, Sergei Tretyakov; based on the material of his theoretical articles, it discusses Tretyakov's thoughts on the ability of various types of media – in particular literature and cinematography – to record constantly changing everyday phenomena and preserve them.