Davydova T.T., Sushilina I.K. The History of Russian Literature of the 20th century: from Impressionism to Postmodernism. Manual. Moscow. 2016. 351 p.

Author(s):  
Natalia Solntseva ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 311-316
Author(s):  
Alexey Yu. Ovcharenko

The review article presents various views on the periodization of Russian literature in the 1920s and 1930s and provides arguments in favor of new, refined approaches to the boundaries of the period. Particularly noteworthy are the works of those authors who point to the need for an expanded understanding of the twenties. The concept of the Big Twenties is of particular value in connection with the centenary of the magazine Krasnaya Nov , which made a significant contribution to the literary process of that time.


2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Pakhomova

The article analyzes War Stories (Voennye rasskazy, 1915) by Mikhail Kuzmin and offers a new interpretation of the book’s pragmatics. Most students of War Stories have not treated this collection in much detail, mainly seeing it as Kuzmin’s unsuccessful attempt to become a part of the mainstream patriotic movement during WWI. Contrary to her predecessors, Alexandra Pakhomova argues this particular book has a definite and consciously motivated authorial strategy. What Kuzmin did in War Stories was an attempt to establish his new literary reputation, and also to create an entirely new genre of short fiction in Russian literature. KEYWORDS: 20th-Century Russian Literature, Mikhail Kuzmin (1972—1936), Voennye rasskazy (1915), Literary Reputation, History of Literature.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Yu. Galushkin

The collection of the most significant scientific papers by Alexander Yu. Galushkin (1960–2014), the last of Viktor Shklovsky’s literary secretaries, the creator of one of the first independent philological journals in Russia “De Visu”, the long-term employee of the IWL RAS, and the head of the Literary Heritage Department, reflects the main areas of his research interests. In addition to articles and publications, the section “From the History of Russian Formalism” includes the extensive work “From Conversations with Viktor Shklovsky”. The section “From the History of Literary Life” contains articles and notes from periodicals that have become inaccessible (the old “Literaturnoe Obozrenie”, the Parisian newspaper “Russkaia Mysl”). The section “From the Documentary Biography of E.I. Zamyatin” presents materials for the book of the same name prepared by A.Yu. Galushkin on the basis of his works on Zamyatin; as an appendix, his PhD thesis “Discussion on B. Pilnyak and E. Zamyatin in the Context of Literary Policy of the Late 1920s — Early 1930s” with author’s corrections and additions is published for the first time. The collection is concluded with the bibliography of A.Yu. Galushkin’s works.


2018 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 01086
Author(s):  
Evgeny Korobeinikov ◽  
Denis Khabibulin ◽  
Evgeny Tsapov ◽  
Olesya Golubeva

This paper examines the cultural heritage of the end of the 19th- the beginning of the 20th century, which period is known for the crisis that struck all the spheres of life of the time – social and economic, political, philosophical, aesthetic. It is for this reason that the intellectuals of the time reflected on the crisis in their artistic, philosophical and spiritual search. In particular, this can be traced in the works of Russian and foreign modernists. In that period, the problem of creative cognition as a special ideology and a way to create life becomes of particular importance. The relevance of this work is defined by striving to outline certain approaches to solving this problem. The aim of this research is to identify the particularities of the subject-object relationship and how it forms in a literary work while enabling the author to build an adequate symbolist picture of the world, to transform and create it. The aspect examined by the authors of this article will help analyse the system of symbolism, just like any other theory, from the philosophical standpoint. One can use the results of this research when developing new programmes for basic and special courses in the history of 20th-century Russian literature and culture to be taught at university or at school.


2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 238-283
Author(s):  
Olga Demidova

This article is an attempt at close reading an extensive ego text (Georgy Adamovich’s letters to Alexander Bacherac of the 1940s – 1972) as a thirty-year-long literary conversation of two Russian émigré writers. Regarding the letters as a single cultural text, and relying on the hermeneutic and semiotic approaches, the article singles out three major layers of the text in question, and analyzes the textual body “inwardly,” i.e. starting from the purely existential-informational upper layer, proceeding to the layer of literary criticism, and finally reaching the layer of literary quotations and cultural allusions used as one of the basic devices forming Adamovich’s epistolary style. Comparing the letters with Adamovich’s famous Literary Conversations (Literaturnye besedy) of the 1920s, the author argues that in his correspondence with Bacherach Adamovich followed the tradition of the Russian friendly literary-philosophical discourse borrowed from the West in the 1800s and developed in the 1820s – 1830s by Alexander Pushkin and his circle. KEYWORDS: 20th-Century Russian Literature, Georgy Adamovich (1892—1972), Alexander Bacherac (1902—1985), Correspondence, History of Literature.


2020 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 109-127
Author(s):  
E. V. Ivanova ◽  

The article examines the history of M. Gorky’s obscure project "One Hundred Best Russian Books", which was to be published at the Publishing House of Z. I. Grzhebin. Blok, N. Gumilev, K. Chukovsky, E. Zamyatin, Ivanov-Razumnik, N. O. Lerner contributed to the project. Block saw it as a chance to summarize the development of the pre-revolutionary Russian literature. The article details Blok’s approach to making the list of one hundred best Russian books; preparatory materials reflecting Block’s guiding principles are also published. The Appendix contains the list of 250 books compiled by Blok at Gorky’s request.


2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 80-93
Author(s):  
Olga Proskurova-Timofeeva

This article is an inquiry into the possible origin of the title of Vladimir Nabokov’s second Russian novel King, Queen, Knave (Korol’, dama, valet, 1928). It proves a long-forgotten hypothesis that the title’s likely source is a lesser-known fairy-tale by Hans Christian Andersen, published in several translations into Russian in Berlin and Riga émigré newspapers at the very end of the 1920s. KEYWORDS: 20th-Century Russian Literature, Vladimir Nabokov (1899—1977), Korol’, dama, valet (1928), Hans Christian Andersen (1805—1875), Russian émigré Press, History of Literature.


Author(s):  
V. Biloveski

The paper discusses the Slovak translations of Russian literature for children and juveniles in the 20th century. It focuses on the translations which represent the classics of children’s reading for Slovak children and juveniles. It also compares the situation of translating Russian literature for children and juveniles into Slovak before 1989 and after that as well as and the quailty of translations in those two different periods of history of Slovakia.


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