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Между Прустом и Джойсом: Вехи на пути к Aбсолюту
Between Proust and Joyce: Markers on the way to the Absolute

Author(s): Olga Anatolyevna Demidova
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Comparative Study of Literature, Russian Literature, Migration Studies, Ethnic Minorities Studies, Theory of Literature
Published by: Tallinna Ülikooli Kirjastus
Keywords: 20th-century Russian émigré literature; Marcel Proust (1871—1922); James Joyce (1882—1941); critical reception; history of literature;

Summary/Abstract: In this article Olga Demidova provides a detailed analysis of the critical reception of Marcel Proust and James Joyce in Russian émigré literature of the Interwar years. She suggests that responses of émigrés to Proust and Joyce were essentially self-descriptive: when writers compared a peer to Proust or Joyce, they were primarily expressing their own aesthetic and ethical framework.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 80-102
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Russian