Information about the author:
Dina M. Magomedova
Dina M. Magomedova, DSc in Philology, Leading Researcher, А.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya St., 25А, bld. 1, 121069 Moscow, Russia; Professor at the Department of Russian literature, Russian State University of Humanities, Miusskaya Sq., 6, 125047, Moscow, Russia.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5299-3361
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Abstract:
This article raises the problem of “rewriting classics” in Neorealistic works against the background of Russian Realism and Modernism. The paper focuses on texts in which the tendency towards the “return movement” in the culture of the late 19th and the early 20th centuries is implemented in the form of transformation (“rewriting”) and polemical reinterpretation of the plots and motifs of famous classical works of the 19th century, among them of Crime and Punishment by F. Dostoevsky, Turgenev’s novels about the “new men,” Anna Karenina by L. Tolstoy, The Belkin Tales and The Captain’s Daughter by A. Pushkin. It is emphasized that during the era of the dominance of Neorealism in the 1910s, the artistic study of the foundations of national character, the peculiarities of Russian life, the rediscovery of the “little man” phenomenon, and the retrospective “rewriting” of classical subjects of Russian literature become signs of both Realistic and Modernist schools.
Keywords: return movement, “rewriting classics”, Neorealism, Modernism, plot transformation, author, character.
