Interaction of the “Russian” and the “Soviet” myths in Italian travelogues about the Soviet Union of the 1950s

Q4 Arts and Humanities
A. V. Golubtsova
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The article analyzes travelogues about the USSR of the second half of the 1950s written by Italian authors Carlo Levi, Alberto Moravia, Curzio Malaparte, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Goffredo Parise and Guido Piovene. We draw the conclusion that the reception of the Soviet Union of that period is determined by two mythological paradigms: the “Russian” one, dating back to the 18th and 19th centuries, and the “Soviet” one, which was formed in the epoch of Stalin. A complex interaction of the “Russian” and “Soviet” myths generates certain concepts concerning the USSR: first of all, the USSR as a basically rural society and, second, the USSR as a land of childhood (meaning both individual childhood of the authors and collective “childhood” of Europe and of the whole world). These motifs play a key role in Italian perception of Soviet society of the second half of the 1950s. By the 1960s the influence of both paradigms on Italian travel prose is sharply reduced, but getting rid of mythological schemes in travelogues of the 1960s and 1970s comes at a price: the authors start avoiding broad conclusions and prefer to focus on local issues and descriptions of their private contacts with Soviet people.
1950年代意大利关于苏联的游记中“俄国”和“苏联”神话的相互作用
本文分析了意大利作家卡洛·列维、阿尔贝托·摩拉维亚、库尔齐奥·马拉帕特、皮埃尔·保罗·帕索里尼、戈弗雷多·帕里斯和圭多·皮奥维尼在20世纪50年代下半叶写的关于苏联的游记。我们得出的结论是,对那个时期的苏联的接受是由两个神话范式决定的:“俄罗斯”范式,可以追溯到18世纪和19世纪,“苏维埃”范式,形成于斯大林时代。“俄罗斯”和“苏联”神话的复杂互动产生了关于苏联的某些概念:首先,苏联是一个基本的农村社会,其次,苏联是一个童年的土地(既指作者的个人童年,也指欧洲和整个世界的集体“童年”)。这些主题在20世纪50年代下半叶意大利人对苏联社会的看法中发挥了关键作用。到20世纪60年代,这两种范式对意大利旅行散文的影响急剧减少,但在20世纪60年代和70年代的旅行中摆脱神话式的计划是有代价的:作者开始避免笼统的结论,而更喜欢关注当地问题和描述他们与苏联人的私人接触。
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