The Category of Place in Émigré Consciousness: With Reference to Vladimir Varshavsky

The author considers the evolution of the concept of “one’s own place” in Russian literature through the prism of works by N. V. Gogol, F. M. Dostoyevsky, and young writers of «the first wave» of Russian emigration. The article focuses on the meaning of Demons and Crime and Punishment which suggest...

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Main Author: Maria Anatolyevna Vasilyeva
Format: Article
Language:Russian
Published: Ural Federal University Press 2016-12-01
Series:Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки
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Online Access:https://journals.urfu.ru/index.php/Izvestia2/article/view/2198
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spelling doaj-ceff99964b0c4fab9582813b339ca62c2020-11-25T02:53:58ZrusUral Federal University PressИзвестия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки2227-22832587-69292016-12-01184(157)82510.15826/izv2.2016.18.4.0622019The Category of Place in Émigré Consciousness: With Reference to Vladimir VarshavskyMaria Anatolyevna Vasilyeva0Дом русского зарубежья, МоскваThe author considers the evolution of the concept of “one’s own place” in Russian literature through the prism of works by N. V. Gogol, F. M. Dostoyevsky, and young writers of «the first wave» of Russian emigration. The article focuses on the meaning of Demons and Crime and Punishment which suggest deep parallels between the willful reduction of life (suicide) and the reduction of one’s own place in the world (symbolical departure to the outland) that anticipated a number of themes of the literature of the Russian abroad. The author focuses on the special role of a cycle of works of D. I. Chizhevsky devoted to the criticism of ethical formalism, the issue of doppelgangers and Dostoyevsky’s creative work that gave a comprehensive analysis of the concept of “one’s own place” in the ethical and religious system of the Russian classic. The article emphasises the special role of the motif of “one’s own place” in the ideological and artistic system of V. Varshavsky and his essential contribution to the renovation of this discourse. The article explores separate events and phenomena in the history of the Russian dispersion (“exodus”, Russian Montparnasse, Parisian Note, World War II, etc.) as the most important stages of the émigré search for one’s own place in the world are explored. The author aims to show the special role of the category of place in émigré consciousness and in the works of writers of the Russian abroad, to note a special contribution of literary criticism of the Russian emigration to the study of the ethical and ontological “issue of places”. Using the comparative and hermeneutical methods, the author traces the deep communication of the émigré concept of “one’s own place” with the tradition of Russian classical literature. Following his analysis, the author concludes that there was an essential transformation of the concept of one’s own place in the literature of Russian emigration accompanying the massive exodus, the loss of homeland, the point of support, and the place in the world.https://journals.urfu.ru/index.php/Izvestia2/article/view/2198литература русского зарубежьяконцепт «своего места» в русской литературеисследования Д. Чижевскогоэтический формализмпроблема двойникамолодое поколение русской эмиграцииПарижская нотаРусский Монпарнасавтобиографическая проза В. Варшавского
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The Category of Place in Émigré Consciousness: With Reference to Vladimir Varshavsky
Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки
литература русского зарубежья
концепт «своего места» в русской литературе
исследования Д. Чижевского
этический формализм
проблема двойника
молодое поколение русской эмиграции
Парижская нота
Русский Монпарнас
автобиографическая проза В. Варшавского
author_facet Maria Anatolyevna Vasilyeva
author_sort Maria Anatolyevna Vasilyeva
title The Category of Place in Émigré Consciousness: With Reference to Vladimir Varshavsky
title_short The Category of Place in Émigré Consciousness: With Reference to Vladimir Varshavsky
title_full The Category of Place in Émigré Consciousness: With Reference to Vladimir Varshavsky
title_fullStr The Category of Place in Émigré Consciousness: With Reference to Vladimir Varshavsky
title_full_unstemmed The Category of Place in Émigré Consciousness: With Reference to Vladimir Varshavsky
title_sort category of place in émigré consciousness: with reference to vladimir varshavsky
publisher Ural Federal University Press
series Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки
issn 2227-2283
2587-6929
publishDate 2016-12-01
description The author considers the evolution of the concept of “one’s own place” in Russian literature through the prism of works by N. V. Gogol, F. M. Dostoyevsky, and young writers of «the first wave» of Russian emigration. The article focuses on the meaning of Demons and Crime and Punishment which suggest deep parallels between the willful reduction of life (suicide) and the reduction of one’s own place in the world (symbolical departure to the outland) that anticipated a number of themes of the literature of the Russian abroad. The author focuses on the special role of a cycle of works of D. I. Chizhevsky devoted to the criticism of ethical formalism, the issue of doppelgangers and Dostoyevsky’s creative work that gave a comprehensive analysis of the concept of “one’s own place” in the ethical and religious system of the Russian classic. The article emphasises the special role of the motif of “one’s own place” in the ideological and artistic system of V. Varshavsky and his essential contribution to the renovation of this discourse. The article explores separate events and phenomena in the history of the Russian dispersion (“exodus”, Russian Montparnasse, Parisian Note, World War II, etc.) as the most important stages of the émigré search for one’s own place in the world are explored. The author aims to show the special role of the category of place in émigré consciousness and in the works of writers of the Russian abroad, to note a special contribution of literary criticism of the Russian emigration to the study of the ethical and ontological “issue of places”. Using the comparative and hermeneutical methods, the author traces the deep communication of the émigré concept of “one’s own place” with the tradition of Russian classical literature. Following his analysis, the author concludes that there was an essential transformation of the concept of one’s own place in the literature of Russian emigration accompanying the massive exodus, the loss of homeland, the point of support, and the place in the world.
topic литература русского зарубежья
концепт «своего места» в русской литературе
исследования Д. Чижевского
этический формализм
проблема двойника
молодое поколение русской эмиграции
Парижская нота
Русский Монпарнас
автобиографическая проза В. Варшавского
url https://journals.urfu.ru/index.php/Izvestia2/article/view/2198
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