Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin’s The History of a Town and Mikhailu Yevgrafovichu by Vyacheslav Pyetsukh: The Russian Mentality Cover Image

История одного города” М. Е. Салтыкова-Щедрина и „Михаилу Евграфовичу” В. Пьецуха: русская ментальность
Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin’s The History of a Town and Mikhailu Yevgrafovichu by Vyacheslav Pyetsukh: The Russian Mentality

Author(s): Anatoly Sobennikov
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Russian Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: atire; mentality; game; deconstruction; Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin; Vyacheslav Pyetsukh

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to Vyacheslav Pyetsukh’s reception of Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin’s satire “The History of a Town”. In “The History of the Town of Glupov in New and Modern Times” and “The Town of Glupov in the Last Ten Years” Pyetsukh develops the motif of irrationality in Russian government and public life. The author also analyzes the semantic and axiological aspects of ‘Russian- ness’ in Pyetsukh’s texts.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 7
  • Page Range: 185-191
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Russian