Information about the author:
Ioanna B. Delektorskaya
Ioanna B. Delektorskaya, PhD in Philology, Senior Researcher, A.M.Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya St., 25A, bld.1, 121069 Moscow, Russia.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-2467-4886
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Abstract:
The article discusses the mythological component of the book by Andrey Bely, A Habitation in the Kingdom of Shadows (1925), taking in the context of Bely’s biography. The analysis of the text and title of the book shows that in the book about his journey to Germany, living in Berlin, and returning to Soviet Russia, Andrey Bely builds a complicated autobiographical myth based not only on some motifs of Ancient Egyptian and Ancient Greek mythology but also on Swift’s and Dante Alighieri traditions. The article pays special attention to the history of appearance in the book of the dog-headed connoisseur of Berlin night cafes, the prototype of which was V. Khodasevich.
Keywords: Andrey Bely, A Habitation in the Kingdom of Shadows, Berlin, emigration, autobiography, myth-making, J. Swift, Dante Alighieri, V. Khodasevich.
