“Against the Symmetrical World”: Volker Braun and Russia

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Classification – name: Literary studies
Author: Tatiana N. Andreiushkina
Pages: 121–144
Publisher: A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IWL RAS Publ.)
Rights – description: Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 (СС BY-ND)
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Language of the publication: Russian
Type of document: Research Article
Collection: Russia – Germany: Literary Encounters (after 1945)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0683-3-121-144
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https://elibrary.ru/ETHPGR
Year of publication: 2022
Place of publication: Moscow
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Andreiushkina, T.N. “ʽAgainst the Symmetrical World’: Volker Braun and Russia.” Russia – Germany: Literary Encounters (after 1945). Мoscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2022, pp. 121–144. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0683-3-121-144

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Tatiana N. Andreiushkina, DSc in Philology, Associate Professor, Department of Theory and Practice of Translation, Togliatti State University, Beloruskaya 14, 445020 Togliatti, Russia.

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2818-983X

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Abstract:

The article studies the influence of the socialist ideology and Russian literature on the work of Volker Braun and shows the way this influence is reflected in his poetry and dramas (collections of poems, the trilogy about Lenin, dramas Die Übergangsgesellschaft, Dmitri a.o.).

Keywords: literary tradition, Volker Braun, history of socialism, “supertension tragedy”, comedy of Chekhov, citation.

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