Studia LitterarumPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-3-386-405
L. V. Sumatokhina
{"title":"The Book about the Russian Village: M. Gorky’s Unfulfilled Plan of the 1930s","authors":"L. V. Sumatokhina","doi":"10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-3-386-405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-3-386-405","url":null,"abstract":"The article attempts to reconstruct M. Gorky’s unfulfilled plan of the mid-1930s to write a book about the Russian pre-revolutionary village for the literary and artistic series “Kolkhoznik Library,” which was part of the publishing project “History of the Village.” The author deeply analyzes Gorky’s stories “Saddler and Fire,” “Execution,” “Eagle,” “Bull,” published in 1934–1935 in the “Kolkhoznik” magazine, and also the initial fragment of his unfinished story about the Russian village. The material of Gorky’s correspondence with V.Ya. Zazubrin and archival sources on the “History of the Village” (the Archive of A.M. Gorky IWL RAS, Moscow) show the emergence of the idea of a book about the Russian village and the beginning of the writer’s work on its embodiment; the pre-term volume of the collection and its place in the literary and artistic series “Kolkhoznik Library.” The article demonstrates the special importance that Gorky attached to the publishing project “The History of the Village” and within its framework “Kolkhoznik Library,” which is confirmed by the writer’s intention to create a new book of works of fiction specifically for this series.","PeriodicalId":41001,"journal":{"name":"Studia Litterarum","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87876395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Studia LitterarumPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-4-356-369
K. Chekalov
{"title":"New Book on the Author of a Poem Monrepos. Baron Nicholay and his Entourage","authors":"K. Chekalov","doi":"10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-4-356-369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-4-356-369","url":null,"abstract":"On October 17, 2017 the conference “An Alsatian Intellectual in Enlightenment Russia: L.G. Nikolay, Strasbourg President of the Russian Academy of Sciences” happened. Materials of the conference, with the addition of other essays and documents, formed the basis of the book under review (published under the editorship of Sorbonne Professor Rodolphe Baudin and Senior Researcher of IWL RAS Alexandra Veselova). The book’s authors are well-known scientists from France, Russia, Germany and Switzerland. Baron Ludwig Heinrich von Nikolay (1737–1820; in Russia he was called Andrey Lvovich) played a prominent role in Russian social and cultural life at the end of the 18th century. Nicolay came from the intellectual milieu of Strasbourg, which became a subject of research in the essays included the book by R. Baudin, D. Ryusk and V. Berelovich. From 1769 he was in Russia, where he was entrusted with the position of mentor to the heir to the throne, Pavel Petrovich. In 1798, Nikolay was appointed president of the Russian Academy of Sciences; N. Prokhorenko’s essay is devoted to his productive activity in this post. Thanks to his personal qualities, Nicholas managed to stay at court after the coup on March 12, 1801 and ingratiate himself with Alexander I; in 1803 he left the service. A number of materials of the reviewed work are devoted to the literary work of Nikolay, a prolific and versatile poet (articles by M. Arens and A. Ananyeva). For posterity, the name Nikolay is associated primarily with the famous estate of Mon Repos in Vyborg, which he acquired in 1788, to which he dedicated a poem in 1804, probably his best work (article by Yu. Moshnik and M. Efimov). The book also pays attention to Nikolay as a character in historiographical essays and fiction (articles by A. Veselova and M. Efimov). Attached are five unpublished letters from Nicolai; their addressees are the diplomat and lawyer F.A. Annenberg and the poet and scientist K. Pfeffel. The book is provided with a chronology of Nicolai’s life and work and brief annotations of articles (in French and Russian).","PeriodicalId":41001,"journal":{"name":"Studia Litterarum","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86709121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Studia LitterarumPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-2-174-187
A. Alexandrov
{"title":"The Literary Life and Creativity of Contemporary Writers in the Epistolar Dialogue between A.A. Izmailov and A.A. Tikhonov-Lugovoy","authors":"A. Alexandrov","doi":"10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-2-174-187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-2-174-187","url":null,"abstract":"The article focuses on the epistolary dialogue between A.A. Izmailov and A.A. Lugovoi, two well-known writers at the beginning of the 20th century. It deals with the most interesting historical and literary facts from the correspondence, e. g. discussion of their works, facts of the literary life of the era, interpretations of the works of brother-writers. Epistolary materials allow to clarify important biographical facts of the two contemporaries. The author examines the method of Izmailov the critic, who, by virtue of his profession, was constantly forced to look for new topics, to think over the structure of more and more new reviews, to incorporate other people’s interpretations prompted in private conversations and personal letters into the texts of his own reviews. The article contains extensive quotations from unpublished letters of two writers.","PeriodicalId":41001,"journal":{"name":"Studia Litterarum","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86982726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Studia LitterarumPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-1-146-169
Yu. Patronnikova
{"title":"Emilio De Marchi’s Novel “The Priest’s Hat”: the Origins of Italian Giallo","authors":"Yu. Patronnikova","doi":"10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-1-146-169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-1-146-169","url":null,"abstract":"The paper examines Emilio De Marchi’s novel “The priest’s hat” (1888) as a precursor of detective fiction in Italy. Influenced by Dostoevsky and the French tradition (Gaborio) with its attention to characters’ psychology, De Marchi tells the story of “crime and punishment” that contains crucial elements of detective fiction. The plot revolves around the priest’s murder. The only evidence, his hat, determines how the detective story unfolds — it introduces the mystery, hints at the crime, and sparks the investigation. The case is officially led by the investigating judge. The story also contains untypical genre elements: not fully developed character of the detective (whose function is performed by several characters); the absence of the mystery as to who is the criminal; the investigation’s secondary role; and, most importantly, it’s resolution in a psychological way. De Marchi’s focus is placed on the inner conflict of the perpetrator. The guilt makes the hero lose his mind and at the case’s hearings he unwittingly confesses that he is the murderer. The justice is restored, but the crucial role is played not by human ingenuity (as in a typical detective story) but by the fate: the supreme force prevents the perpetrator from getting away with the crime.","PeriodicalId":41001,"journal":{"name":"Studia Litterarum","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84685030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Studia LitterarumPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-3-66-83
Sergey A. Stepantsov
{"title":"Was there a Sword? On Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae (v. 134–140)","authors":"Sergey A. Stepantsov","doi":"10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-3-66-83","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-3-66-83","url":null,"abstract":"In the prologue of Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae (134–140) Euripides’ Inlaw after seeing the poet Agathon expresses his bewilderment at the mixture of gender signals emitted by Agathon’s clothes and the objects he is surrounded with. Inlaw enumerates several couples of objects incompatible because of their relatedness to one or another gender: barbitos and saffron gown, lyre and headband, lekythos (an attribute of athletics) and breast band, sword and mirror. In this paper I reconsider commentators’ opinions on the question whether there was indeed a sword among the props visible to the public or the sword was mentioned by Inlaw because it was present in the passage from Aeschylus’ Edonians explicitly parodied in the questions asked by Inlaw. A. Sommestein’s speculation that Agathon needs a sword to get into a male role is rejected as contradicting Agathon’s words in v. 154–155. I also call in question G. Kaibel’s surmise (supported by C. Prato, C. Austin and D. Olson) that the sword was present in the parodied scene of the Edonians because Dionysus was represented in armis there, as a conqueror of new lands. I consider that there are no firm reasons to think that there was a sword among the props of the comedy or that it was mentioned in the parodied tragedy as a thing present in the scene in which Lycurgus interrogated Dionysus. It is more probable that sword (as well as lekythos) is mentioned by Inlaw just as a most typical male thing opposed to typically female mirror. I also suppose that v. 140 “What can a sword and a mirror have in common?” is rather a recast of the anonymous comic aphorism “What can a blind man and a mirror have in common?” (apud Stob. 4.30.6a) than vice versa (whoever the author of this aphorism might be).","PeriodicalId":41001,"journal":{"name":"Studia Litterarum","volume":"72 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85963835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Studia LitterarumPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-4-74-83
Ekaterina N. Buzurnyuk
{"title":"Reference to the Lamp in Aristophanes’ Assemblywomen (v. 2): Reading Choice","authors":"Ekaterina N. Buzurnyuk","doi":"10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-4-74-83","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-4-74-83","url":null,"abstract":"Aristophanes’ comedy “Assemblywomen” begins with an apostrophe. In paratragic style, the character addresses the lamp as if she were a solar deity. The second verse of the comedy should contain a characterization that praises the lamp. However, there is a textological problem in the manuscripts that does not allow us to understand the idea of this verse. Editors and commentators of the comedy proposes several conjectures and interpretations, but none of the proposed corrections gives a clear meaning and does not seem appropriate in praising the lamp as a solar deity. The article offers textological arguments and analysis of the beginning of the comedy and the author claims that the best reading is κάλλιστ’ ἐν εὐσκόποισιν ἐξηυρημένον —“…beautifully devised so as to be among the well-seeing [luminaries].”","PeriodicalId":41001,"journal":{"name":"Studia Litterarum","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88377897","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Studia LitterarumPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-1-184-201
A. Bogdanov
{"title":"Power of the Legend: the Tale of Sloven and Rus in Russian Chronicles of the 17th Century","authors":"A. Bogdanov","doi":"10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-1-184-201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-1-184-201","url":null,"abstract":"The article examines the influence of the 1630s Novgorod literary tale about the descendants of Noah, the Scythian princes Sloven and Rus, the Great City of Slovensk, which later became Novgorod, the empire they founded and their descendant Gostomysl, for the broad circles of scholarly book lovers of the 17th – early 18th centuries. The author tries to explain why this tale became extremely popular among highly educated chroniclers and was included into the largest chronicle and chronographic monuments, from the Code of 1652 to the Russian Chronograph, as well as into works of the annalistic scriptorium of Patriarch Joachim, the Novgorod Zabelinskaya Chronicle, Latukhin’s Book of Degrees, the Synopsis and the Detailed Chronicle from the Beginning of Russia to the Battle of Poltava. The tale remained stable in the writings of the overwhelming majority of authors, who were accustomed in other cases to seriously revise, shorten or supplement the text. The fact that the attempt remake the tale in a scholarly way and to integrate it into the chronographic text was unique and unsuccessful makes us think that ancient scribes and readers of their works, like M.V. Lomonosov later, were attracted by the literary merits of this poetic legend. We see the opposite picture in the history of the similarly conceived scholarly story about Mosokh existence, confirming this conclusion by constant alterations of its text.","PeriodicalId":41001,"journal":{"name":"Studia Litterarum","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88667174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Studia LitterarumPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-3-340-363
Natalia L. Vinogradskaya
{"title":"Gogol and the School of Cavalry Junkers (From the Commentary on Gogol’s Letters to A.S. Danilevsky)","authors":"Natalia L. Vinogradskaya","doi":"10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-3-340-363","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-3-340-363","url":null,"abstract":"The article provides new information on Gogol’s biography in his early years in St. Petersburg (1829–1831). In particular, it gives new facts and hypotheses concerning Gogol’s social circle, interests and plans during this period. The author of the article carries out a detailed analysis of Gogol’s letters to his closest friend A.S. Danilevsky. Alexander Danilevsky arrived in the capital together with Gogol and entered the School of Cavalry Junkers and Ensigns of the Guard in the spring of 1829. Some names and circumstances mentioned in Gogol’s letters to Danilevsky have so far remained unclear to commentators. The article reveals the meaning of these realities due to the involvement of previously unpublished archival materials, as well as some newspaper reports and little-known memoirs of contemporaries. As follows from the letters, Gogol knew well the everyday life, manners and interests of the School’s students and teachers. This knowledge can be seen in his later literary work, for example in the numerous images of middle-ranking officers, from Lieutenant Pirogov in “Nevsky Prospect” to nameless minor characters: lieutenants in “Dead Souls,” “The Inspector General,” “Litigation,” “Ivan Fedorovich Shponkа,” etc.","PeriodicalId":41001,"journal":{"name":"Studia Litterarum","volume":"2013 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86365514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Studia LitterarumPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-3-258-279
A. Sysoeva
{"title":"“Zalp” Magazine as a Tool to Support and Form Defense Literature","authors":"A. Sysoeva","doi":"10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-3-258-279","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-3-258-279","url":null,"abstract":"The Soviet journal “Zalp” and its supervising organizations, which draw the writers to the military topics, were closely engaged in their activities. Defense literary criticism had the journal as its basis. The journal gave its authors a symbolic capital — introduced them to the community of defense writers, which was especially significant for novices. The work with the latter was a main focus of the journal editorial policy. It also provided an opportunity to publish for professional writers. Discussions, including the one with the participation of a poputchik, as well as ideologically controversial short stories demonstrate that the defense literature of the beginning of 1930s was not entirely restricted. At the same time, there was an idea of the “right” defense text and the journal was a platform for searching for it. This article deals with the cases when the text was recognized as erroneous and the variety of authors’ correction in response to criticism. The fictional texts in the journal were a selection of defense literature’ principles which writers could follow in their work.","PeriodicalId":41001,"journal":{"name":"Studia Litterarum","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86628587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Studia LitterarumPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-3-196-217
E. Haltrin-Khalturina
{"title":"Mowgli’s Poetic Schooling: On Lyrical Parts of Kipling’s Jungle Books","authors":"E. Haltrin-Khalturina","doi":"10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-3-196-217","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-3-196-217","url":null,"abstract":"For many decades, Russian-speaking readers of Kipling, keeping in mind the published translations from his two Jungle books (1894; 1895) including the Mowgli cycle, have paid close attention only to the stories and largely overlooked the fact that Kipling’s original prose is punctuated with a great score of poems. As of now, despite the books’ utter popularity, there exists no Russian edition of Kipling’s dilogy which might be considered complete and scholarly. The inset lyrical cycle of the dilogy has drawn attention of the Russian readership only recently (in 2015–2016) thanks to the popular editions enriched with specific book-page designs for the songs, ballads, and imitations of ritual lyrics. Their illustrators Robert Ingpen and Angel Dominguez helped to bring out the prosimetric pattern of the text composed in regularly alternating segments of prose and verse. When transferring these series of illustrations into the Russian-language editions, the publishers had to commission translation of the missing poems, which serve as companion pieces to the stories. This article dwells on the structure of the two “Jungle Books”, on the particularities of pairing prose with verse in this dilogy, making occasional note of many literary allusions. Also, the article pays attention to the series of lyrics accompanying the progress and growth of mind of the famous Mowgli. An earlier version of the present study was delivered at the conference “The Phenomenon of Children’s Literature: Its Genesis, Evolution, and Prospects” (IWL RAS, October 27–28, 2020).","PeriodicalId":41001,"journal":{"name":"Studia Litterarum","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82573665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}