“The Delicious Death” in Andrei Nikolev’s Beyond Tula: A retractati Cover Image

Сладкая смерть» в романе Андрея Николева «По ту сторону Тулы»: Retractatio
“The Delicious Death” in Andrei Nikolev’s Beyond Tula: A retractati

Author(s): Vsevolod Zeltchenko
Subject(s): Comparative Study of Literature, Russian Literature, Theory of Literature, American Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Tallinna Ülikooli Kirjastus
Keywords: 20th-Century Russian Literature; Andrei Nikolev (Andrei Egunov; 1895—1968); Beyond Tula (1931); Herman Melville (1819—1891); Moby-Dick (1851); Subtext; History of Literature;

Summary/Abstract: Correcting his own suggestion made in the 2023 article (cf. Slavica Revalensia, vol. 10), the author points to the source of one of the passages in Andrei Nikolev’s (A. N. Egunov) novel Beyond Tula (1930, published in 1931): the story of the “delicious death” of a honey-hunter is taken from Moby-Dick.

  • Issue Year: 2025
  • Issue No: 12
  • Page Range: 118-124
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Russian
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