{"title":"Sadeq Hedayat’s Three Drops of Blood and The Blind Owl and Nikolai Leskov’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District","authors":"Jalil Nozari","doi":"10.25205/2713-3133-2023-2-54-60","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25205/2713-3133-2023-2-54-60","url":null,"abstract":"After more than seven decades since its publication, Sadeq Hedayat’s The Blind Owl still remains a mystery to critical analysis. The appearance of Mustafa Farzane’s Rencontres avec Sadeqh Hedayat provides us with threads to finding answers to some of the ambiguities surrounding the Persian novella. According to Farzaneh, Hedayat advised him to read the story of Ledi Makbet Mtsenskogo Uezda by the Russian writer Nicholas Leskov to find clues to the love aspects of The Blind Owl. This article is an attempt to determine the bearing Farzane’s testimony may have on the study of Hedayat’s novella and another shorter work of his entitled Three Drops of Blood. By referring to Shakespeare’s Macbeth that the Russian novel’s title is an allusion to, the study reveals that there are a number of interesting relations, from imagery to the theme of existences as penal colony, a Schopenhauerian notion, shared by these texts.","PeriodicalId":493916,"journal":{"name":"Сюжетология и сюжетография","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136304770","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}
{"title":"Between Pan and the Gray Wolf: Dionysian Variations","authors":"Ilya V. Kuznetsov","doi":"10.25205/2713-3133-2023-2-91-99","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25205/2713-3133-2023-2-91-99","url":null,"abstract":"Mariam Petrosyan’s novel “The House in which ...” uses a model of two worlds and involves several teenage trickster heroes who can go into another reality called “The Forest”, as well as take other children there. The paradigm for such a plot structure in European literature aimed at children and adolescents is D. Barry’s book “Peter Pan”. Her hero is correlated with a pagan Pan, and he takes boys from ordinary families to his island. Peter Pan does not want to grow up and does not know love; the children he takes away must be cheerful and heartless. The immobile time on Peter Pan Island and the lack of love there contrast this world with Christian culture, but they bring it closer to the pagan – Dionysian world, in the words of F. Nietzsche. This construction proved to be very fruitful in the European mass literature of the 20th and 21st centuries. However, in Mariam Petrosyan’s novel, in contrast to this literature, the images of tricksters are not cultivated. They preserve and show the werewolf, dark, dangerous nature. This interpretation of the trickster is connected with the specifics of the Russian literary tradition. Since the time of Romanticism, which established the model of two worlds, the other world in this tradition was usually presented as hostile to man. In the modern era, the two-world model has regained its validity. This was largely due to the fact that the aesthetics of Russian modernism adopted the Nietzschean concept of Dionysianism, specifically interpreted as an appeal to soil culture. However, on the part of traditionally thinking writers, such pochvennichestvo met with rejection. He was criticized by Ivan Bunin, in the story “Sukhodol”, contrasting Christianity with him as the only mechanism for preserving cultural memory. In the 21st century, in the stories of Elena Chizhova, Irina Bogatyreva, Evgenia Nekrasova, the model of two worlds with an appeal to soil culture was again actualized. The characters of the other world were depicted in them as assistants to the heroes, but at the same time unsafe and alien creatures. This interpretation of the trickster is close to the image of a magical assistant in a fairy tale. It was she who was realized in the novel by Mariam Petrosyan.","PeriodicalId":493916,"journal":{"name":"Сюжетология и сюжетография","volume":"95 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136304771","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}
{"title":"On Ethics and Accuracy of the Researcher: Problems of the Scientific Approach in the Article by P. A. Druzhinin on the Falsification of Manuscripts by A. A. Akhmatova","authors":"Mikhail V. Seslavinskiy","doi":"10.25205/2713-3133-2023-3-144-173","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25205/2713-3133-2023-3-144-173","url":null,"abstract":"The article is a response to the publication by P. A. Druzhinin “Falsification of Anna Akhmatovaʼs Manuscripts as an Actual Problem of Textual Criticism”, which evidently states the fallacy and bias of the authorʼs approach when discussing the authenticity or forgery of a number of Anna Andreevna Akhmatovaʼs manuscripts in private bibliophile collections. It is shown that P. A. Druzhinin often uses unverified information, not being a specialist in textual analysis and expertise of Akhmatovaʼs handwritten heritage. The main purpose of the response is to warn future researchers against using dubious methods of “auto-expertise”, which the author of this article resorts to. An assessment is also given to the archive of N. L. Dilaktorskaya (1914–1989) from the collection of the St. Petersburg bibliophile A. M. Lutsenko (1940–2008), who in Druzhininʼs article is presented as the owner of fake manuscripts by Akhmatova and their deliberate propagandist. It tells about the history of the formation of an extensive collection of Lutsenko (with a large number of autographs of the poet, acquired from various persons and under other circumstances, and the provenance and reputation of these inscripts is currently not questioned by anyone), about his acquisition of Dilaktorskayaʼs papers, as well as the evolution of the attitude towards them of A. M. Lutsenko as well as researchers of Anna Akhmatovaʼs creativity. It is emphasized that the negative opinion of the author of the response about the “Akhmatovaʼs manuscripts of Dilaktorskaya” was formed back in 2014, and on the basis of a thorough study of the composition of this Akhmatoviana (which still remains in the ownership of the Lutsenko family and hasn’t changed its owner, as opposed to the statements of P. A. Druzhinin). The distortions of the theses of the author of the response and other researchers on the topic under study are refuted. In addition, it is told about the collection of Akhmatovaʼs autographs in the possession of M. V. Seslavinskiy, which were included in the publication “Bibliophile wreath to Anna Akhmatova” (2014) and are not related to the “Akhmatova archive” by N. L. Dilaktorskaya from the collection of A. M. Lutsenko. A detailed textual analysis of an important controversial artifact known as the “Anna Akhmatova phone book” from the collection of Mikhail Viktorovich Ardov is presented.","PeriodicalId":493916,"journal":{"name":"Сюжетология и сюжетография","volume":"141 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136306116","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}
{"title":"Literary Magazine “The Present” and Maxim Gorky: To the History of the Conflict","authors":"Sergey S. Vasilyev","doi":"10.25205/2713-3133-2023-2-30-39","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25205/2713-3133-2023-2-30-39","url":null,"abstract":"The article discusses the history of the conflict between the literary magazine “The Present” and Maxim Gorky. It is shown that the attitude towards Gorky on the pages of the magazine was not always critical (but at first completely complimentary) and changed over time. The starting point of the conflict is the controversy around Gorky’s review in the “Izvestia” newspaper of Nikolai Aseev’s book “The Make-up Beauty”. A possible reason for Maxim Gorky’s sharp reaction to Aseev’s criticism is indicated: in a discussion with Gorky of modern Soviet literature Aseev chooses a mentoring tone. The further development of the conflict is traced on the pages of periodicals (Gorky’s article “The working class must educate its masters of culture”). The sharply critical reaction of the Novosibirsk Proletkult to this article, which also affected the authors of “The Present”, is shown. The reaction to the conflict of Robert Eikhe at the plenum of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (VKP(b)) is shown. It can be seen how the magazine is trying to soften its policy. It is indicated that these attempts were belated and did not succeed. It is shown how the resolution of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks “On the speeches of a part of Siberian writers and literary organizations against Maxim Gorky” of December 25, 1929, draws a line under the conflict.","PeriodicalId":493916,"journal":{"name":"Сюжетология и сюжетография","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136304786","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}
{"title":"“Please, Help Me in My Great Sorrow”. Concerning Akhmatova’s Efforts to Free Her Son (New Details) Article one","authors":"Olga E. Rubinchik","doi":"10.25205/2713-3133-2023-3-90-143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25205/2713-3133-2023-3-90-143","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is about Anna Akhmatova’s attempts to free her son after his arrest in 1949. There has been a lot of literature on the subject, especially by the literary scholar, Emma Gerstein, who took a dedicated part in Akhmatova’s efforts. This paper makes a number of unpublished material from 1954–1956 from Gerstein’s archive at the Russian State Library (fond 641). First of all, these are letters of petition from Akhmatova to writers, prominent literary and party functionaries Mikhail Sholokhov (two: an authorized typewritten draft and Akhmatova’s autograph) and Aleksandr Fadeev (one: a typewritten draft with amendments by Gerstein). There is also a handwritten letter of acknowledgement from Akhmatova to Gerstein and a text called by Emma Grigorievna “Explanations by E.G. Gerstein to A.A. Akhmatova’s letters addressed to M.A. Sholokhov and A.A. Fadeev and to some other documents on the case of her son”. “Some other documents” are the petitions for Gumilev mentioned by Gerstein in the press but not published by her, written by major scholars: two by the orientalist, Vasily Struve, one each by archaeologists Aleksei Okladnikov and Mikhail Artamonov. Three petitions have been published, one has not yet been published and will be published here for the first time, together with other unknown materials. Among the new materials there is also a letter from Akhmatova to the poet and venerable literary functionary figure Aleksei Surkov, not from the Gerstein archive, although thematically related to the rest of them. The paper consists of two parts (articles). The first part includes Akhmatova’s letters to Sholokhov and petitions from scholars, typewritten copies of which are appended to the second letter. The petitions are descriptions of Lev Gumilev, “a very valuable specialist” and “an honest Soviet man” (Struve), and contain requests for an expedited review of his case and to return “the outstanding researcher of Central and Middle Asian peoples’ history” “to a real life in science” (Okladnikov). The second article, which will appear in the next issue, includes Akhmatova’s letters to Fadeev and Surkov. The publication of the letters is accompanied by Gerstein’s “Explanations” and an extensive commentary.","PeriodicalId":493916,"journal":{"name":"Сюжетология и сюжетография","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136306119","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}
{"title":"Shamanic Narratives of Tuvans: Plot and Thematic Composition","authors":"Zhanna M. Yusha","doi":"10.25205/2713-3133-2023-2-40-53","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25205/2713-3133-2023-2-40-53","url":null,"abstract":"The article is devoted to the study of shamanic narratives – one of the little-studied aspects of the traditional culture of Tuvans. On the basis of folklore and ethnographic materials, the mythological views contained in shamanic stories are summarized, the plot-thematic classification of the fund of shamanic narratives is carried out for the first time, as a result of which eight plot-thematic groups are identified, which includes thirty-three subgroups. It is revealed that the main feature of all the shamanic stories of Tuvinians is their attitude to authenticity. Despite the fantasticism and fictionality of some stories, the bearers of the tradition perceive them as authentic stories confirming the power of shamans as chosen spirits. Each selected thematic group has characteristic features and a certain composition of plot-forming motifs. Their number in the thematic group depends on the development of this topic in the folklore tradition of the Tuvinians. The genre originality of shamanic stories, their compositional structure are considered, as well as the mechanisms of existence of the oral narrative tradition are characterized, the reflection of the main postulates of shamanic mythology is revealed in the stories, the semantic and pragmatic fullness of shamanic narratives in their close connection with ethnographic reality is analyzed. The work is written on the basis of published data and field materials of the author collected in the Republic of Tyva (2020) and the Xinjiang People’s Republic of China (2010–2018).","PeriodicalId":493916,"journal":{"name":"Сюжетология и сюжетография","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136305442","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}
{"title":"The Heroine Is a Savage in the Georgsandovsky plot: The Polemic of A. Ya. Panaeva with A. V. Druzhinin (Based on the Material of the Story Apiary)","authors":"Anastasia A. Ponomareva, Anna S. Dubinina","doi":"10.25205/2713-3133-2023-3-7-19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25205/2713-3133-2023-3-7-19","url":null,"abstract":"The article is devoted to the study of the A. Ya. Panaeva’s story Apiary. The paper proves that the story was a kind of replica of the progressive project of love and family relations, which took shape in the A. V. Druzhinin’s story Polinka Saks under the influence of the Zh. Sand’s novel Jacques an warmly welcomed by the circle of Contemporary. Using the plot scheme of the Zh. Sand’s novel with the same plot shifts with which it is presented in the A. V. Druzhinin’s story, the writer builds a new plot combination that reveals an alternative idea of the emancipation of a woman. The writer shows that A. V. Druzhinin and the writers who supported his project declare the idea of a woman as an object (love / development, etc.), while ignoring her natural giftedness. Arguing with them, the writer creates a novel in which it is shown that the resource for the development of female self-consciousness is not outside, but inside her. To express her idea, A. Ya. Panaeva uses a plot in which the central figure is a natural heroine. This is the plot of a man from the civilized world in love with a heroine is a savage. The paper shows that this plot is transformed depending on new ideological tasks: the functions of mandatory actors (a heroine is a savage, a defender of the heroine, a man from the world of civilization) change, new plot links are added. During the analysis, it was concluded that A. Ya. Panaeva deconstructs the idea of a saving marriage, the development of a woman by a man.","PeriodicalId":493916,"journal":{"name":"Сюжетология и сюжетография","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136306111","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}
{"title":"“Sing with the Most Different Meters...”: Poetry of “Iskra” in the Mirror of Stylometry","authors":"Anastasia G. Vasilenko, Alexey E. Kozlov","doi":"10.25205/2713-3133-2023-3-20-37","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25205/2713-3133-2023-3-20-37","url":null,"abstract":"This article is devoted to the study of poetic parodies and rehashings by stylometry methods. As a tool, the Delta stylemetry method was chosen, which uses the distribution of the most frequent words to match texts in the corpus. At the first stage of the study (A. G. Vasilenko), it was important to find the answer to questions related to tracking the author's signal and clustering texts of rehashings: does the presence of rehashing affect the author's signal? Will the text of the rehash be clustered with the original works of the writer? At the second stage (A. E. Kozlov), an experiment was conducted to establish the stylometric correlation of the precedent text “Farewell, unwashed Russia”, which is also inherent in the possibilities of stylometry as a research tool. This study, the results of which cannot be called definitive, nevertheless opens the prospect of interaction between digital stylometry and auto-science.","PeriodicalId":493916,"journal":{"name":"Сюжетология и сюжетография","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136302941","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}
{"title":"M. Gorky in the Creative Mind of A. Platonov","authors":"Elena N. Proskurina","doi":"10.25205/2713-3133-2023-2-17-29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25205/2713-3133-2023-2-17-29","url":null,"abstract":"The subject of this article is the perception of creativity and personality of M. Gorky by A. Platonov. The methodological basis of the work is the motivic analysis of the texts of both authors, produced against the background of the study of the historical and literary context. The methodological basis of the work is the motivic analysis of the texts of both authors, carried out against the background of the study of the historical and literary context. The study is based on Platonov’s later articles “The First Date with A. M. Gorky” and “Pushkin and Gorky”, as well as his lyrical and philosophical poems in prose, created in the early 1920s. As analysis has shown, this corpus of early works clearly echoes Gorky’s early poem “The Man”. In it, the main motive, as in Platonov’s poems, is the motive of thought. However, creatively developing the main provisions of Gorky’s poem, Platonov does not blindly follow the unilinear logic of the pretext, but comprehends it in his characteristic manner of multi-vector movement of thought.","PeriodicalId":493916,"journal":{"name":"Сюжетология и сюжетография","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136304489","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}
{"title":"“– No, not you, – it’s me – a proletarian!”: Marina Tsvetaeva – Poetic Development of the Industrial Outskirts (Cycle “Factory”)","authors":"Svetlana Yu. Kornienko","doi":"10.25205/2713-3133-2023-2-73-90","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25205/2713-3133-2023-2-73-90","url":null,"abstract":"The article is devoted to the specifics of Marina Tsvetaeva’s urban texts, the images of Berlin and Prague in connection with her creative personality, ideas about the nature of the poet and literary creativity. In the image of Tsvetaeva’s Berlin, the features of the Petersburg text of Russian culture are actualized (theatricality and decorativeness, ghostliness, stoneness become the features of the city), which will determine the poet’s indifference to this city. Tsvetaevskaya Prague is constructed differently; the poet himself defined the city through the categories of “kinship”. The corpus of texts devoted to Prague is extensive, many poems and two poems – “The Poem of the Mountain” and “The Poem of the End”. A feature of Tsvetaeva’s Prague texts is the cultural settlement of the Prague outskirts. In the outlying metaphor, Tsvetaeva experiences the Jewish Quarter and Mount Petrin, but the poetics of the outskirts is most clearly reflected in the Factory cycle (1922). Tsvetaevsky’s cycle is filled with apocalyptic metaphors, and the poet’s voice accumulates the voices of social outcasts and disenfranchised workers of Svobodarna. An appeal to Tsvetaeva’s creative notebook shows the poet’s movement towards the problems of this acute social cycle, the emergence of images, the connection with the universal categories of “truth” and “orphanhood” in Tsvetaeva’s poetic world. The poet’s immersion into the abyss of industrial-capitalist hell is poetically framed through the technique of gradation: among the suffering voices of a Prague seamstress and laundress, from the depths of the social moat comes the voice of the most lyrical heroine – the “proud without a shirt” and the poet. Tsvetaev’s creative notebook shows the metapoetic potential of the “little seamstresses” that appeared in Zavodskie, as on the following pages of the notebook the poet will deploy spectacular metaphors of writing in the context of factory sewing (“a syllable is a stitch”, “a hand is scribbling”). Thus, Tsvetaeva’s text generation acquires a new metaphor of montage of text fragments (rags) into text (dress). Tsvetaevsky’s “Factory” cycle is by no means the first example of industrial poetics in Russian culture. Tsvetaeva’s significant addition to the industrial poetics of Russian modernity will be a conscious immersion in the social ditch, the presence of her people there – over national and cultural borders, finding in the abyss of someone else’s social pain and human suffering the original metaphors of writing.","PeriodicalId":493916,"journal":{"name":"Сюжетология и сюжетография","volume":"101 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136305018","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}