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Abstract:

The purpose of the publication is to record and comprehend the estate and dacha as types of artistic space in the literature of the 20th century, to affirm the vitality of the “estate topos”, which in the context of historical disasters took on new forms: estate-museum, estate-dacha, estate- sanatorium, estate-house of rest / creativity, etc. — while remaining an active and creative environment, reproducing the basic features of the national mentality. Inclusion in the centuries-old “estate text” of such writers of the Soviet period as: F.V. Gladkov, K.A. Fedin, V.Ya. Zazubrin, A.N. Afinogenov, M.M. Prishvin, B.L. Pasternak, K.G. Paustovsky and others — shows that the literature of the USSR, with all its contradictions, is an organic part of Russian culture. The same applies to the “estate text” of the Russian emigration in the works of I.A. Bunin, I.S. Shmelev, B.K. Zaitsev, S.R. Mintslov, V.V. Nabokov, S.D. Dovlatov and others. The universality of the phenomenon of the estate in the 20^th century is revealed in comparative works of writers from India, Iran, Serbia, England, France, Spain. A special place is given to studies of the “dacha topos”, which in Soviet times supplanted the estate theme due to the abolition and reformatting of private estates. Metamorphoses of the “dacha text” in the 1910–1990s are comprehended on the basis of the work of G.I. Chulkov, B.L. Pasternak, A.P. Gaidar, Yu.V. Trifonov, Yu.O. Dombrovsky, V.V. Peruanskaya, T.N. Tolstaya, Yu.V. Mamleev, E.G. Vodolazkin and others. The collective monograph includes articles by 44 authors, distributed in 5 problem-thematic sections, reflecting the most important spheres of existence of the phenomena of the estate and dacha in the literature of the 20th century: “estate text” in Soviet, emigrant and world literature, new representations of the “estate topos” in the conditions of the 20^th century, as well as the “brilliance and poverty” of the literary dacha as a way of life and a subject of depiction. The book is addressed to humanities specialists, primarily literary scholars, as well as students and a wide audience of interested readers.

Keywords: literary estate, literary dacha, 20^th century, Soviet literature, literature of Russian emigration, comparative parallels, modifications of the “estate topos”.

Contents

Foreword

Olga A. Bogdanova. The Sacred Vessel: Estates of the 20^th Сentury and World History 

Part I

The Estate World in Soviet Literature

Natalya V. Kovtun. “Heterotopia of the Estate” in F.V. Gladkov’s Novel “Cement” 

Tatyana M. Zhaplova. Transformation of the “Trans-Volga” Estates Image in Scientific, Artistic and Newspaper Journalism of Soviet Years

Alexander V. Markov. The Estate and Dacha Locus in the Literature and Art of Socialist Realism 

Daria M. Borisova. The Past and Present of the Russian Estate in K.G. Paustovsky’s “The Tale of the Woods” 

Elena Yu. Knorre. Estate and War: The Motif of the Assembling of the “Universal House” in M.M. and V.D. Prishvins’ Works

Part II

Estate Tracery in the Prose of the Russian Emigration

Yue Wang. The Estate and the City in I.A. Bunin’s Story “Mitya’s Love” 

Natalia V. Prashcheruk. “Heterotopia of the Estate” in I.A. Bunin’s Prose: from the First Story to the Novel “The Life of Arsenyev” 

Ildiko Maria Racz. Russian Estate as a Spiritual and Artistic Space in Ivan Bunin’s Works of Emigration Period

Natalia V. Mikhalenko. Еstate Legendarium in S.R. Mintslov’s Stories 

Veronika I. Abramova. Elements of the “Estate Text” in the Novel “Paths of Heaven” by I.S. Shmelev 

Valeria G. Andreeva. The Motif of Traveling around the Estate House in B.K. Zaitsev’s Tetralogy “Gleb’s Travels” 

Andrey E. Agratin. The Problem of Character’s Identity in the “Post-Estate” World: S.D. Dovlatov’s “Reserve” 

Part III

Estate and Dacha Themes in the Literature of the World: a Comparative Approach

Ranjana Banerjee. The Theme of Decline of the Noble Estates (Based on Anton Chekhov’s Play “The Cherry Orchard” and Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay’s Story “The Music Hall”) 

Natalia N. Arsentieva. Exploring the García Lorca’s Estate in Asquerosa: Resources for a Creative Biography 

George A. Veligorsky. “Winning Back Astraea’s Golden Age!”: оn the History of English Estate Allotments (19^th – 21^st Centuries) 

Margarita V. Cherkashina. Yves Bonnefoy’s “Pierre Écrite” 

Neda Andrić. Ivo Andrić’s Dacha — the Birth of the “Hierotopos” 

Anna L. Zekunova. The Estate in Fantasy Literature: Bag End by J.R.R. Tolkien as the Quintessence of Home Comfort 

Marzieh Yahyapour, Janolah Karimi-Motahhar. Garden-estate in Persian Poetry (“My Garden” by Mehdi Akhavan Sales) 

Vassili E. Molodiakov. The Destiny of Chemin de Paradis: Museumification of Charles Maurras’s Estate 

Ekaterina E. Dmitrieva. The Fate of Castles in the 20^th and 21^st Centuries: Problems of Museumification and the Need for Domestication 

Part IV

Forms of Literary Estates in the 20^th Century: Genesis and Transformations

Lev N. Letyagin. Supremum Vale: Post-Estate Russia and Literary Classics 

Olga R. Demidova. Estate as a Shelter: Between Aesthetics and Ontology 

Оlga А. Nagel (Grinevich). The “Estate Text” and the Text of Exile in Russian Poetry 

Мaria S. Fedoseeva. Estate Non-fiction: the Phenomenon of the Estate in Museum Memoiristics 

Natalia A. Trubetskaya. The Uzkoe Estate-Sanatorium is a “Shelter of Tranquility, Work and Inspiration” for the Soviet Intelligentsia of the 1920s

Aida G. Razumovskaya. “The Shelon River Flows Like the Onegin Line”: the Kholomki Estate in the Space of Memory

Anna A. Koznova. The Writers’ Village in Peredelkino as a Collective Estate of the Soviet Era

Elizaveta A. Vlasova. V.V. Nabokov’s Estate Ardis and S.D. Dovlatov’s Dacha in Monticello as Places of Memory

Part V

“Brilliance and Poverty” of the Literary Dacha

Olga A. Bogdanova. “Dacha Topos” in Russian Literature of the 19^th – 21^st Centuries: Genesis and Evolution 

Emilio Mari. “Farewell to Summer”: Soviet Marginalia to “Dacha Topos” 

Ilya A. Aleksandrov. V.F. Khodasevich’s “Dachnoe”: About One Author’s Pretext 

Wasilij G. Szczukin. Dacha as a Stream of Poetic Consciousness. “The Second Ballad”, a Poem by B.L. Pasternak 

Galina M. Rebel. Why Did the Blue Cup Break? The Artistic Space of the Story by A.P. Gaidar “Blue Cup” 

Natalia G. Makhinina, Lilija H. Nasrutdinova. The Dacha Theme in Soviet Literature for Children 

Maxim V. Skorokhodov. “Dacha Topos” in the Soviet Poetry of the Middle — Second Half of the 20th Century in the Context of the Estate Tradition 

Mikhail A. Perepelkin. One Dacha Story: Yuri Dombrovsky’s “The Swan Princess”

Maria V. Mikhailova, Arina S. Sotnikova. Paradise in the Near Moscow Suburbs: “Dacha Topos” in V.V. Peruanskaya’s Novel “Kikimora” 

Ksenya A. Sundukova. Siverskaya in Winter and Summer: “Dacha Topos” in Yu V. Trifonov’s “Old Man” and E.G. Vodolazkin’s “Aviator” 

Ekaterina A. Erokhina. Soviet Dacha Through the Eyes of a Child: the Experience of Close Reading of T.N. Tolstaya’s “Invisible Maiden” 

Alfiya F. Galimullina. Artistic Interpretation of the Kazan Writers’ Dacha Settlement Lebyazhye in Contemporary Poetry and Memoirs 

List of Illustrations

List of Accepted Abbreviations. Comp. by Elena V. Borisova 

Index of names. Comp. by Elena V. Borisova