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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

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Gorky through the Eyes of France Slavistics (Based on the History Of Russian Literature of the Paris Publishing House “Fayard”, 1987–1990)

  • Classification – name: Literary studies
  • Author: Serge Rolet
  • Pages: 96–103
  • 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: Collection of articles
  • Collection: Maxim Gorky and World Culture: A Collection of Scientific Articles
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0693-2-96-103
  • EDN:

    https://elibrary.ru/DFSCME
  • Year of publication: 2023
  • Place of publication: Moscow

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  • Rolet, S. “Gorky through the Eyes of France Slavistics (Based on the History of Russian Literature of the Paris Publishing House “Fayard”, 1987–1990).” Maxim Gorky and World Culture: A Collection of Scientific Articles. Ed. L.A. Spiridonova. Мoscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2023, pp. 96–103. (In Russian) 1 Electronic Optical Disc. Text: Electronic. https://doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0693-2-96-103

Information about the author:

Serge Rolet

Serge Rolet, DSc in Philology, Professor of Russian Literature, Faculty of Foreign Languages, University of Lille, France.

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Abstract:

The article examines the interpretation of Gorky’s work in different volumes of the History of Russian Literature published by “Fayard” in France in 1987–1990. Gorky is mentioned in the volume called “The Silver Age”, but only in a general article devoted to the literature of the late 20th century. The article “Maxim Gorky” is placed in a volume analyzing Russian literature of the stalinist and post-stalinist periods. Gorky turns out to be primarily a “soviet” writer, in fact, alien to the search for the Silver Age and the 1920s. The creators of “Fayard”’s History of Russian Literature, who claimed to be a scientific method, freed from any ideological approach to art, actually adhere to the ideology of symbolists, which then dominated the emigrant intelligentsia.

Keywords: M. Gorky, V. Strada, M. Geller, Western slavistics, “Fayard”, ideology.

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