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Vsevolod E. Bagno
Vsevolod E. Bagno, DSc in Philology, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor of the Philological Faculty, St. Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya emb. 7/9, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia; Head, Department of Relations between Russian and Foreign Literatures, Scientific Director of the Institute of Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Pushkin House), Makarova emb., 4, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Abstract:
The subject of this paper is the reputation of Spanish-language literature in the USSR in the 1930–1980s, primarily the particular fate of F. García Lorca and the creators of the new Latin American novel. This fate is associated with the fact that their original work, imbued with the currents of the works of modernists, surrealists, existentialists, was perceived by the Soviet regime as anti-fascist and anti- imperialist. The article proves that along with Lorca, Cortázar and Márquez, their teachers appeared on the shelves of Soviet bookstores: Proust, Joyce, Kafka, Beckett, Sartre, which allowed, on the one hand, poets such as V. Parnakh or M. Zenkevich and especially M. Tsvetaeva, translating Lorca, hiding in the translation niche, to create poetry, continuing their own long-begun path, and on the other, to prevent the complete isolation of the Soviet reader from the new aesthetic tendencies of Western literature.
