Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.22455/2686-7494-2023-5-3-24-59
Sergey S. Zhdanov
The paper deals with the representation of the German space in “Travel letters from England, Germany and France” by N. I. Gretsch. This text is compared as with author’s other travelogues dedicated to traveling through German lands as well as with the tradition of describing Germany in Russian literature in the end of the 18th – the first half of the 19th centuries. The article reveals the close connection of the spatial imagery in the Gretsch’s work with the sentimentalism world-image of Germany. In accordance with this world-image, German lands are marked mainly with idyllic features. Idyllic loci in the Gretsch’s travelogue are connected with a number of motifs, such as motifs of orderliness, coziness, visual attractiveness, abundance, vitality, purity, peacefulness, silence, justice, contentment, brightness, closeness, patriarchality, achrony, miniaturization. The motif of sacredness of German space is of particular importance for representing the “blessed Germany” in the text. This allows to set the opposition “sacred, law-abiding, peaceful Germany — desecrated, lawless, violent France.”
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.22455/2686-7494-2023-5-3-202-217
Maxim V. Skorokhodov
A personal or family library is an indispensable and significant element of an educated person’s life. Of particular value are writers’ libraries, which are formed both by buying new publications and by receiving books as a gift, and usually with friendly inscriptions. The study of a writer’s library helps to clarify the author’s reading circle and identify possible influences. Gift inscriptions help to determine the level of relationship. Interest in books, reading circle, possibility to understand and discuss the readings are important characteristics of literary characters. The article examines the legacy of N. V. Gogol, I. S. Turgenev, L. N. Tolstoy, B. K. Zaitsev, K. G. Paustovsky, M. M. Prishvin and A. T. Tvardovsky. The analysis shows that the literary tradition of homestead and dacha reading and library collecting, which was formed in the 19th century, was developed in the works of the 20th century authors.
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