Information about the author:
Anastasia V. Golubtsova
Anastasia V. Golubtsova, PhD in Philology, Senior Researcher, А.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya 25 а, 121069 Moscow, Russia.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1286-7707
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Abstract:
This article analyzes the essay by Pier Paolo Pasolini “Rural Festival for Thirty Thousand” (1957) written by the Italian author after his journey to the USSR for the 6th World Festival of Youth and Students. The travelogue is considered as an example of an Italian left intellectual’s reflection about Russian / Soviet and Italian civilizations, this reflection and self-reflection being based on the imagological reception of Russia as “the Other”. Special attention is paid to the widespread perception of Russian civilization as a basically rural one. The article studies the dynamics of the mentioned image of rural Russia and the key role it plays in Pasolini’s essay. The study is supplemented with a translation of the essay made by the author of the article.
