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Carla Maria Solivetti
Carla Maria Solivetti, DSc in Philology, Professor of Russian Literature at “Roma Tre” University, Completed Her Academic Teaching Career in 2014; She Published the Monographs “Chlebnikov: il mondo come verso” (Rome, 1985), “Strategie Narrative in Gogol’” (Rome, 2015) and the Collection of Studies “The Author and His Mirrors” (St. Petersburg, 2005, in Russian); the Laureate of the Literary Prize “N.V. Gogol in Italy”.
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Artem Marchenkov
Artem Marchenkov, PhD in Philosophy, Specialization, Philosophy of History, Semiotics of Literature, Author of Articles Devoted to the Work of N.V. Gogol, N.M. Karamzin, V.V. Rozanov, V. Khlebnikov.
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Abstract:
This article investigates the role of the travel topos in Gogol’s literary and personal mythopoetics. It is a reflection on Y. Mann’s decision to present Gogol’s biography through the genre code of the travelogue. The analysis of biographical documents, the recollections of Gogol’s contemporaries, and his epistolary archive makes it possible to reconstruct the relationship between the writer’s artistic vision and his wandering lifestyle. It is shown how a romantic attitude to the search for a spiritual homeland was transformed over the years into a conscious choice to follow the path of a wanderer. The reconstruction of the causes and cultural contexts that motivated such a choice leads to the conclusion that the phenomenon of religious and socio-utopian wandering played a key role in Gogol’s self-identification and literary strategy.