Who is Vasily Travnikov? Between Literary Hoax and Literary History

The Life of Vasily Travnikov (1936) by V. Khodasevich is a literary hoax that introduces a fictional poet, the predecessor of Pushkin, and plausibly tells about his life and work. This character is Khodasevich’s twin of a kind who criticizes literature of the pre-Pushkin era and the initial period o...

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Main Author: Akifumi Takeda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences 2018-06-01
Series:Studia Litterarum
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Online Access:http://studlit.ru/images/2018-3-2/Takeda.pdf