Writer and publisher: Konstantin Leontev about Mikhail Katkov (to the problem of mutual relations) Cover Image

Писатель и издатели: Константин Леонтьев о Михаиле Каткове (к проблеме взаимоотношений)
Writer and publisher: Konstantin Leontev about Mikhail Katkov (to the problem of mutual relations)

Author(s): Ludmiła Łucewicz
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Russian Literature, Philology
Published by: Polskie Towarzystwo Rusycytyczne
Keywords: Konstantin Leontyev; Mikhail Katkov; publishers; writers; cultural life; literary life

Summary/Abstract: The author in her article marked that for description of mutual relations of writer and publisher there is not equivalent information, i.e. there are numerous judgements, autobiographic compositions, special article of Leontyev relatively Кatkov, but there is nothing of the kind outside of Кatkov. A writer, lining up the version of mutual relations with a publisher in 70th, does an accent especially on a negative. As a result Katkov appears a man authoritarian, mercenary, proud, apathetic, lacking in initiative in the judgements. At the same time the facts marked a writer on the way talk and about other: not only about the real material help of Кatkov, but also about his participating in spiritual development of junior contemporary. Attention in the article is concentrated on two plans of confessional texts of Leontev: on a correlation of the subjective descriptions given by a writer to the publisher and objective facts of positive participation of publisher in the fate of writer.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 155
  • Page Range: 51-60
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Russian