Literature, Slavic

Book Review Literature, Slavic

THE POETRY OF PALA OLIVA

Jana Juhasova

SLOVENSKA LITERATURA (2022)

Article Literature, Slavic

Still life with bread: Notes on Jan Ondrus's poem Sobota [Saturday]

Viktor Suchy

Summary: This article explains the fragments of imagery in the early poems of Jan Ondrus, focusing on still life and the process of baking bread. It discusses how the staging of space in poetry is dealt with and highlights the significance of these elements in the poems.

SLOVENSKA LITERATURA (2022)

Book Review Literature, Slavic

THE SPACE-TIME OF THE LYRIC

Barbora Zlejsia

SLOVENSKA LITERATURA (2022)

Article Literature, Slavic

The poem of Miroslav Valek Vecer [Evening] as a subversion of traditional symbolist model of the lyric

Matus Miksik

Summary: The article interprets Miroslav Valek's poem "Evening" as a deconstruction and subversion of the poetic tradition. It examines how Valek tackles the motifs of the night, rain, and raven, and updates Edgar Allan Poe's well-known poem "The Raven." The author also highlights the subversion of the tragic-elegiac melancholic modality in the poem. The analysis focuses on the night setting, the image of rain without melancholy, and the detachment of the speaker from the emotions portrayed in the lines.

SLOVENSKA LITERATURA (2022)

Article Literature, Slavic

Dostoevsky's Darovoe in Archival Documents of the Russian Geographical Society

Albina S. Bessonova

Summary: Russian writer F. M. Dostoevsky spent his childhood summers in his parents' estate in the Kashirsky district of Tula province from 1832 to 1836. These summers left a profound impression on him, particularly regarding the way of life, traditions, and character of the Russian people.

NEIZVESTNYI DOSTOEVSKII-THE UNKNOWN DOSTOEVSKY (2023)

Article Literature, Slavic

UNKNOWN LETTER FROM A. I. BRAUDO TO M. GORKY CONCERNING THE ARREST OF M. L. LOZINSKY IN 1921

Larisa Grigor'evna Zhukhovitskaya

Summary: This article reconstructs the events of August 1921 that are relevant to the fate of N. S. Gumilyov by publishing a previously unknown letter to Gorky, which informs about the arrest of M. L. Lozinsky, translator and editor of Vsemirnaya Literatura Publishing House. The article traces the fate of the involved individuals and provides certain details.

RUSSKAIA LITERATURA (2023)

Article Literature, Slavic

TREASURE LEGENDS OF THE WINTER COAST OF THE WHITE SEA

Natalya Gennadjevna Komelina

Summary: The article explores legends about treasures found on the Winter Coast of the White Sea, including a barrel with gold and Soviet treasure troves. Field interviews provide insight into the contexts in which these stories are shared.

RUSSKAIA LITERATURA (2023)

News Item Literature, Slavic

THE FIRST COMPLETE BIOGRAPHY OF A. A. FET

M. V. Otradin

RUSSKAIA LITERATURA (2023)

Article Literature, Slavic

TWELVE SLEEPING MAIDENS BY V. A. ZHUKOVSKY IN CONTEMPORARY PARODY RESPONSES ( I. V. PROTASHINSKY, A. A. VOEIKOVA, S. P. SHEVYREV)

Svetlana Veniaminovna Berezkina

Summary: The article examines parody responses to V. A. Zhukovsky's Twelve Sleeping Maidens (1811-1817) through the works of I. V. Protashinsky, A. A. Voeikova, and S. P. Shevyrev. Protashinsky's parody Twelve Sleeping Butoshniks (1832) gained popularity, and a reference to it in Voeikova's letter allows its dating back to 1819. The article explores the history of Shevyrev's libretto for A. N. Verstovsky's opera Vadim, or the Twelve Sleeping Maidens Awakening (1832) and discusses the parodic elements in Shevyrev's adaptation of Zhukovsky's plot.

RUSSKAIA LITERATURA (2023)

Article Literature, Slavic

LITERATURE AS A FORM OF THE RUSSIAN THOUGHT: A NEW GUIDE TO THE INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF RUSSIA

D. M. Bulanin

Summary: The article explores the theme of the window in Venedikt Erofeev's poem Moscow - Petushki. It identifies all instances of the word window in the poem and demonstrates that, in contrast to most travelogue writers, the narrator of the poem avoids looking out of the window as much as possible.

RUSSKAIA LITERATURA (2023)

Article Literature, Slavic

THE FINAL SCENES FROM F. SCHILLER'S DRAMA DON CARLOS IN AN UNPUBLISHED TRANSLATION BY A. I. KUPRIN

Viacheslav Nikolaevich Bystrov

Summary: This publication presents the final scenes of F. Schiller's tragic poem "Don Carlos" in an unpublished translation by A. I. Kuprin from 1919. A typewritten copy of the translation is preserved in the Department of Manuscripts at the Institute of Russian Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences. The handwritten versions of the original source, also stored there, have been taken into consideration, and a comparison is made with M. M. Dostoevsky's translation from the 1840s. The article briefly outlines the Russian writer's approach to reading and interpreting the German original of the tragedy.

RUSSKAIA LITERATURA (2023)

Article Literature, Slavic

HOW THEY WANTED TO PUBLISH FIRDOUSI'S SHAHNAMEH AT VSEMIRNAYA LITERATURA PUBLISHING HOUSE

Iakov Dmitrievich Chechnev

Summary: The article examines the debates surrounding the publication of the Persian epic Shahnameh at the Eastern Department meetings of Vsemirnaya Literatura Publishing House in 1919. Using data from A.M. Gorky Archives, Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the author reconstructs the chronology of translation proposals for Firdousi's epos and the discussions between two reviewers, N.S. Gumilyov and F.A. Rosenberg, who were both employees of the publishing house. As a result of the debate, N.S. Gumilyov suggested re-translating Shahnameh.

RUSSKAIA LITERATURA (2023)

Article Literature, Slavic

SEARCHING FOR HAPPINESS AND FORTUNE: ANCIENT AND FRENCH SOURCES OF K. N. BATIUSHKOV'S FAIRY-TALE THE WANDERER AND THE HOME-LOVER

Andrei Aleksandrovich Dobritsyn

Summary: The article explores the intertextual connections of Batiushkov's verse-tale The Wanderer and the Home-Lover. Based on Batiushkov's letters, the central idea of the tale is closely linked to French maxims, particularly poetic punchlines. The protagonist's philosophical quest, which forms the foundation of the plot, culminates in his acquisition of Pyrrhon's skeptical wisdom. The study uncovers numerous borrowings from French poetry and treatises on classical Antiquity.

RUSSKAIA LITERATURA (2023)

Article Literature, Slavic

LITERATURE AND SOCIAL SYMPATHY LUDWIK KRZYWICKI'S ARTICLE WEDROWKA IDEI (THE MIGRATION OF IDEAS) AGAINST THE BACKGROUND OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THEORETICAL PARADIGMS OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE AT THE END OF THE 19TH CENTURY

Jens Herlth

Summary: This paper is a contribution to the study of literature and sociology in partitioned Poland in the late 19th century. It explores the theoretical potential of Ludwik Krzywicki's concept of idea migration in comparative literature studies. The paper examines the interplay between literary criticism and sociology among the Warsaw intelligentsia and analyzes the reception of foreign anthropologists and sociologists of literature (Hutcheson Macaulay Posnett, Charles Letourneau) in these circles. It reconstructs the functional connection between literature and the social bond advocated in early sociologically based studies of comparative literature and discusses the factors that led to its disappearance in subsequent disciplinary history.

PAMIETNIK LITERACKI (2023)

Article Literature, Slavic

WHAT THE FAMOUS SOVIET WRITER WANTED TO SAY, YET DIDN'T (M. A. SHOLOKHOV'S SPEECH AT THE SECOND NATIONAL CONGRESS OF THE SOVIET WRITERS)

Valerii Iurevich Viugin

Summary: This article contributes to the history of the Second National Congress of the Soviet Writers by focusing on Mikhail Sholokhov's speech. It traces the evolution of the speech by comparing various versions, both published and unpublished.

RUSSKAIA LITERATURA (2023)

Article Literature, Slavic

N. K. GUDZIJ AT THE STATE ACADEMY OF ART SCIENCES: THE HISTORY OF COOPERATION PART 2: NOVEMBER 26, 1924 - DECEMBER 7, 1928

Maksim Andreevich Frolov

Summary: This publication, based on archival data, traces the history of a literary historian, N. K. Gudzij, and introduces previously unpublished texts and colleagues' feedback on his work.

RUSSKAIA LITERATURA (2023)

Article Literature, Slavic

THE LEGEND OF THE THREE BROTHERS AND OF THE HEAD OF GEORGE THE HUNGARIAN IN THE LIFE OF ST. EPHRAIM OF TORZHOK

Tat'iana Nikolaevna Galasheva

Summary: This article explores the life of St. Ephraim of Torzhok and the legends associated with it, such as the stories of the three Hungarian brothers and the severed head of George the Hungarian. It also examines the different versions of the text and investigates the sources, methods, and goals of the editors' work.

RUSSKAIA LITERATURA (2023)

Article Literature, Slavic

AN ATTEMPT OF VANGUARD HAGIOGRAPHY: A. M. REMIZOV'S NOVELLA IN PINK GLOW: FROM THE PROLOGUE

Alla Mikhailovna Gracheva

Summary: The article analyzes the history and poetics of the first work created by the writer after the death of his wife, S. P. Remizova-Dovgello. In his experimental vanguard text, Remizov merges the poetics of the ancient Russian literature and Russian Romanticism of the early 19th century. The article reveals the sources of the titles In Pink Glow and Through the Fire of Sorrows.

RUSSKAIA LITERATURA (2023)

Article Literature, Slavic

CONCERNING THE EMERGENCE OF THE MODERN RUSSIAN LITERATURE IN THE 1ST THIRD OF THE 18TH CENTURY

N. Iu Alekseeva, A. Iu Solovev

Summary: The article discusses the shift of Russian literature from ancient times to modern times. The sources studied include plays and travelogues.

RUSSKAIA LITERATURA (2023)

Article Literature, Slavic

A. S. PUSHKIN'S CRITICAL NOTES FOR THE FIRST ISSUES OF LITERATURNAYA GAZETA (TOWARDS THE PROBLEM OF DATING)

Svetlana Bogdanovna Fedotova

Summary: The autographs of Pushkin's critical notes in Literaturnaya Gazeta are not well-preserved, and most of the available ones come from the First Arzrum Notebook. While Ya. L. Levkovich made some insightful observations about the dating of these articles, a more detailed examination of the content and publication time has further clarified their chronology.

RUSSKAIA LITERATURA (2023)