Publication details
Romannaja oderžimost kamerdinera Aleksandra Puškina
| Title in English | The Vice-Chamberlain Alexander Pushkins Novel Obsession |
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| Year of publication | 2006 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich |
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| Field | Mass media, audiovision |
| Keywords | East Slavs A. Pushkin |
| Description | Pushkins prose in general and his novel writings in particular have the two different kernels: one leads to the model of typical West-European poetics (dramatic structures, love intrigues), the other to the paradigm of descriptive, moral-depicting prose characteristic of Slavs in general and of East Slavs in particular. Pushkins novel writing also confirms his position between Romanticism and Realism: realist, historical and descriptive character of his prose and novel, on the one hand, and the romantic topics, such as struggle with fate or provoking fate, love experiments, nostalgia and romantic irony, on the other. There is, however, another opposition: between the demiurgical attitude to life (dramatic plots, the dominant role of the event, love for various experiments and for the palimpsestic play with motifs) and the quietist observation of passing or flowing of life which is so typical of Eastern vision of man and the world. His tendency or even obsession to write novels were also dictated by the antiromantic atmosphere of that time (the 1830s) and also by his love for historicity and by the historical and state-formation character of his work |