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of World Literature
of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature
of the Russian Academy of Sciences

 IWL RAS

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  • Classification – name: Literary studies
  • Author: Igor A. Ebanoidze
  • Pages: 250–266
  • 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/10.22455/978-5-9208-0683-3-250-266
  • EDN:

    https://elibrary.ru/FQGWNB

  • Year of publication: 2022
  • Place of publication: Moscow
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  • Ebanoidze, I.A. “ʽ...When the Russians Came’: Soviet Contacts of Hermann Kasack.” Russia — Germany: Literary Encounters (after 1945). Мoscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2022, pp. 250–266. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0683-3-250-266

Information about the author:

Igor A. Ebanoidze, PhD in Philology, Senior Researcher, A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya 25 a, 121069 Moscow, Russia..

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8382-5873

E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

Abstract:

The article is dedicated to the contacts of the German writer Herman Kasack with the Soviet Union. The first contact with the USSR took place in an emergency situation. In April 1945 his house in Potsdam was turned into a headquarters of the advanced guard of the Red Army. Kasack’s visit to Moscow (1959), on the contrary, followed the traditional Soviet rite of hospitality. These two episodes of the German writer’s Soviet contacts were described in detail in Kasack’s non-fictional texts and are a unique chronicle of the mid-twentieth century.

  • Keywords: H. Kasack, W. Kasack, B. Pasternak, K. Fedin, G. Grundgens, I. Anisimow, internal emigration, Second World War notebooks, IWL RAS.

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