Wolfgang Koeppen in the USSR

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Classification – name: Literary studies
Author: Evgeny A. Zatshevsky
Pages: 287–331
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/10.22455/978-5-9208-0683-3-287-331
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https://elibrary.ru/FUWPHW
Year of publication: 2022
Place of publication: Moscow
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Zatshevsky, E.A. “Wolfgang Koeppen in the USSR.” Russia — Germany: Literary Encounters (after 1945). Мoscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2022, pp. 287–331. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0683-3-287-331

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Evgeny A. Zatshevsky, DSc in Philology, Professor, Independent Researcher, St. Petersburg, Russia.

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Abstract:

The article is based on the analysis of the travel notes by the West German writer W. Koeppen written during his trip to the USSR. He went in search of the Russia he knew from the books of Russian and some Soviet writers, but the reality he faced did not always correspond to the image he had in his mind. Koeppen pays special attention to human rather than political causes of the transformation of a once revolutionary country into a state devoid of a live relation with its citizens.

Keywords: W. Koeppen, USSR, Russian literature, imagology, center and province, Soviet writers, K. Simonov, B. Polevoy, V. Mayakovsky.

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