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Abstract:

This book is dedicated to the memory of Andrey Kofman (August 17, 1954 – May 16, 2024), an outstanding scholar of Latin American studies, head of the Department of Modern European and American Literatures at the Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (since 2008), Deputy Director for Scientific Work (since 2016). The book examines issues that were within the scope of Andrey Kofman’s academic interests, and sometimes directly inspired by him. These are problems related to Latin American culture in all its aspects (literature, history, music, painting), the literary process in Western countries (Spain, France, England, Germany, the USA…), including the representations of national character in fiction and folklore, a variety of comparative issues and, of course, images of space in literature — a topic that A. Kofman specially developed. The book is addressed to philologists, cultural experts and anyone interested in the history of culture.

Keywords: Literary Process, Literature and Culture of Latin America, Comparative Studies, Space in Literature, Tradition, Literary Movements and Trends.

CONTENTS

Zuseva-Ozkan, Veronika B. Worlds and Borderlands of Andrey Kofman 

Latin American Contexts

Ershova, Irina V. “Exercise in Synthesis”: The Problem of Contamination of Genres in “Comedia de Nuestra Seniora de Guadalupe y Sus Milagros” by Diego de Ocana

Fedosov, Dennis G. The Cuzco School: Cultural Context 

Zuseva-Ozkan, Veronika B. Brazilian Novel and Posthumous Narration: “Memorias Postumas De Bras Cubas” by J.M. Machado De Assis

Ogneva, Elena V. “Green Hell”: From Formula to Literature 

Kryazheva, Irina A. “Down with the Lyre, Long Live the Bongo!” On the Development of Latin American Music in the 20th Century 

Kharitonova, Natalia Yu. Latin American Novel and the “Everyday Life and Love Boom” in Soviet Literature: the Case of Jorge Amado 

Bagno, Vsevolod E. Socialist Surrealism and Magical Social Realism: Reputation of Spanish-Language Literature in the USSR in the 1930–1980s 

Peshkov, Dmitry I. The Hero of Alejo Carpentier’s Story “El Camino De Santiago” and the Figure of the Conquistador: Exploration of American Space

Ivanova de Mendoza, Zhanna M. “The Secret History of Costaguana” by Juan Gabriel Vasquez: The ‘New Historical Novel’ in Latin American Literature 

Comparative Themes

Kudelin, Alexander B. Arabic and European Poetry: Towards an Understanding of Cross-Cultural Exchanges in the Middle Ages 

Ljustrov, Mikhail Yu. The Chapter “The King of Sweden. Neighbors” from Giovanni Botero’s “Universal Relations” in 17th-Century Russian and Swedish Translations 

Andreichuk, Kseniia R. The Novel “Crime and Punishment” by F.M. Dostoevsky and Swedish Crime Fiction of the 1880s (G. af Geijerstam, V. Benedictsson) 

Polonskiy, Vadim V. Early Renaissance Art from Two Modernist Perspectives: J.C. Huysmans, P. Muratov and Fra Beato Angelico

Dobryashkina, Anna V. The Last on the Stage… What for? Gertrud von Le Fort’s Novella and Its Theatrical Adaptation

Golubtsova, Anastasia V. Russia and Italy in the Travelogue by Pier Paolo Pasolini About the USSR 

Korovin, Andrey V. Latin American Magical Realism and Peter Hoeg’s Early Books

Kuznetsova, Ekaterina V. Fiction vs. Document: Autobiographical Trilogy of Oksana Vasyakina 

Literary Process in Western Countries

Golubkov, Andrey V. In the Shadow of F. de La Rochefoucauld and Marquise de Sable: “Various Thoughts” (1678) by Abbe d’Ailly 

Chekalov, Kirill A. “Where are you, Moliere?”: A.-G. Meusnier de Querlon in “Comus’s Workshop” 

Veligorsky, George A. “A Green Thought in a Green Shade”: The Influence of English Metaphysical Poets on the Children’s Literature of the Victorian Era 

Tolmatchoff, Vassily M. Where Does a Man Look? (About the Poet, Poetry, Symbolism in the Poem “The Idea of Order at Key West” by W. Stevens) 

Polovinkina, Olga I. “Invasion Anxiety” and the Idea of Englishness in English Literature of the Early 20th Century 

Panova, Olga Yu. On the Eve of the Harlem Renaissance: Paul Laurence Dunbar’s Dialect Poetry and the Drama of Identity 

Kudryavtseva, Tamara V. Features of Magical Realism in German Literature: About the History of the Phenomenon 

Gerasimenko, Maria V. Testimony on the “Tremendous” Reality or Its Creation? Mental Eventfulness of the Tremendist Novel by C.J. Cela “The Family of Pascual Duarte” (1942) 

Space in Literature. Borders and Boundaries

Girin, Yuri N. Phenomenology of Borderline. Towards a Typology of Cultural Interferences

Andrushchenko, Elena A. The Sack, the Blacksmith and the Deacon, or The Image of Little Russia in Censorship and on Stage

Dmitrieva, Ekaterina E. Pierre Loti’s Urban Estate in Rochefort: Exoticism in Literature and Everyday Life 

Haltrin-Khalturina, Elena V. The Journey of Lewis and Clark to the Wild West and Its Legacy in American Cultural History and Literature 

Moskovskaya, Daria S. Hermeneutics of Space in the Poem by Alexander Vvedensky “Minin and Pozharsky” 

Ebanoidze, Igor A. Germany as Herma. The Fate and Mission of the German Nation in the Journalistic Writings of Thomas Mann 

Minasian, Sofiia V. Mythological Space in Boris Vian’s Novels 

Galtsova, Elena D. The Spaces of a Primitivist Artist in the Works of Andre Breton 

Tufanova, Olga A. The Picture of the “Wild Islands” in the Chronograph of 1617 and in the Russian Translation of the “Chronicles” by Marcin Bielski 

Shevchuk, Yuliya V. The Boundary of Convention in “Trefoils” by I.F. Annensky: from Psychology to Ontology 

Index (comp. Maria V. Gerasimenko)