The Images of Foreigners in I. S. Shmelev’s Early Prose Cover Image

Образы иноплеменников в ранней прозе И. С. Шмелева
The Images of Foreigners in I. S. Shmelev’s Early Prose

Author(s): Anna Aleksandrovna Skoropadskaya
Subject(s): Semantics, Russian Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Петрозаводский государственный университет
Keywords: I. Shmelev; neorealism; impressionism; ethno-poetics; “one’s own”—“alien”; the image of a foreigner;

Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes the images of foreigners in I. S. Shmelev’s early prose using the examples of the stories “Hassan and his Jeddy” and “On the Seashore”. The originality of the study is due to the appeal to the handwritten and typewritten materials, which have been neither published yet, nor subjected to a textual analysis. Meanwhile, the existing draft materials make it possible to reveal the stages of Shmelev’s work on the texts, and his careful stylization, numerous author’s edits and elaborated versions of the plot and images indicate, among other things, the spiritual and moral search of the young author, whose mature work became a model of spiritual realism.

  • Issue Year: 17/2019
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 255-271
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Russian