RECONSIDERING A. B. MARIENGOF’S PROSE IN RUSSIAN JOURNALISM: FROM PERESTROIKA TO THE PRESENT DAY

Abstract

The article analyzes and describes the journalistic reception of Mariengof’s prose from the 1980s to 2019. After the scandal around the „Novel without Lies” in 1927–1929, the return of Mariengof’s prose to the general reader and, consequently, the interpretation by literary critics, took place in several stages. After a long pause, the Mariengof’s prose was published in 1988 and then republished many times. In 2000–2010, a new wave of study and rethinking of the writer’s work began – thanks to the writer Z. Prilepin and researcher O. Demidov. The author gives a brief description of the reception of the publication in 1965. The author subjects the key publications about Mariengof’s prose, which were published in 1988-2019 in such publications as “Book Review”, “Literary Review”, “Neva”, “Our Contemporary”, “New World”, “Free Press”, etc. to detailed description and analysis. Each of the stages is analyzed by the author separately, and at the end he sums up how the image of Mariengof in journalistic texts has changed from perestroika to the present day.