GLEB USPIENSKI I MIESIĘCZNIK „SIEWIERNYJ WIESTNIK”
GLEB USPENSKI AND “SEVERNYI VESTNIK” MONTHLY

Summary/Abstract: The author of the article attempted to analyse Gleb Uspenski’s contributions to the “Severnyi vestnik” monthly and on the basis of this tried to describe the main trends in the later works of the writer. Gleb Uspenski’s contributions to the activities of the periodical were not accidental since “Severnyi vestnik” constituted, in the second half of the 80s of the nineteenth century, a continuation of “Otechestvennyie zapiski” monthly and assembled the majority of the previous periodical’s ex-contributors. Gleb Uspenski’s essays constituted a successful attempt at the revival of the literary genre which in the literary output of the Narodniks passed through a period of decline; it was characterized by epigonous writings and schematism. “The new manner” of the writer and his experimental essay, which on the Russian ground was a peculiar equivalent of creative experiments of West-European naturalists, allowed him to combine the traditional description of the life of common people with the use of statistical data as well as with the author’s own commentary. Gleb Uspenski’s anticapitalistic tirades, written in the spirit of the Narodniks and late writings of Lev Tolstoi, in which the author presents his searches, irresolutions and suffering of creating are conducive to the peculiar lyricism of his text, which — para­ doxically enough links Gleb Uspenski, the realist with the fiction of modernism.

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