About the author:
Anfisa D. Savina, PhD in Philology, Senior Researcher, A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya 25 а, 121069 Moscow, Russia.
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ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8081-5159
Abstract:
The article shows how the acquaintance with the work of the late French Romanticist Villiers de l’Isle-Adam was reflected in the activities of Merezhkovsky’s circle. Villiers’ short stories published in the “Novy Put’” 195 (New Way) magazine are noted with particular attention to The Swan Killer translated by Z.N. Gippius. It is revealed that the artistic features of this short story allow D.V. Filosofov and D.S. Merezhkovsky to use Villiers’ text as an illustration in their own works. The difference in the interpretation of the story by Filosofov (Nihilists) and Merezhkovsky (The Swan Killer) is examined.