Summer School on the Russian Literature. 2017.
Vol. 13. № 3

The article analyzes the poetic concepts of space in the works of Gennady Aygi 1960–1980s, considers the influence of the ideas of avant-garde painting to the uniqueness of the poet.

Keywords: suprematism, G. Aygi, the space, minimalism, K. S. Malevich.

Elena Andreyanova

The influence of K. Malevich's suprematist ideas on the poetic concepts of space in G. Aygi's work of the 1960s and 1980s

The article is devoted to consideration of sources of images and their interpretation in the „slavic“ sonnets of P. D. Buturlin.

Keywords: P. D. Buturlin, presymbolism, sonnet, myth, Slavic mythology.

Anna Vishnevskaya

Sonnet myth-making by P. D. Buturlin

The article studies the transformation of a character of doctor Gurfinkel, present in the works by Yuri Olesha in the 1920s–1930s, that was by most part published after the death of writer („The death of Zand“ and others). An analysis of the author’s work on this character helps to study the poetics and ideology of Olesha.

Keywords: Russian literature of the XXth century, Soviet literature, Yu. Olesha, history of text, Russian drama.

Nikolai Guskov

The fate of dr. Gurfinkel
(on the creative history of the plays of Y. K. Olesha)

In this article, the links between the cuneiform texts of ancient Mesopotamia and the literary events of the Silver Age are revealed. The first note corrects the commentary on the collection of poems by V. K. Schileico and suggests a connection between the administrative tablet with account of livestock and N. S. Gumilev’s metaphor „number — cattle“ in the poem „The Word“. In the second note, the fate of Schileico’s publication of the letter of Hammurabi, which created him the reputation of a great scholar among writers of the „Stray Dog“, was traced. The third note establishes the authorship and content of the unknown epigraph to the publication of the Assyrian amulet. In the fourth article, an unknown Akkadian text is introduced into scholarly circulation and its connection with the poem from the collection of poems by A. Akhmatova is established. The fifth note reveals the literary sources of Akkadian words and names in V. Khlebnikov’s compositions.

Keywords: Assyriology, Russian literature of the Silver Age, V. K. Schileico, M. L. Lozinsky, N. S. Gumilev, O. E. Mandel'stam, A. A. Akhmatova, V. Khlebnikov.

Vladimir Emel'yanov

Sumero-Rossica

Report made by N. S. Leskov in a special department of the Academic Committee of the Ministry of National Education and devoted to the publication of a book against drunkenness and debauchery among the people is published for the first time. The history of his writing is traced and the context of ideas expressed by the writer is recreated.

Keywords: N. S. Leskov, books for the folk, the special department of the Academic Committee of the Ministry of National Education, the struggle against drunkenness.

Olga Makarevich

Report by N. S. Leskov „On the method of compiling a book against the harm of idleness and revelry during the holidays“
Text and Commentary

In this article explored I. S. Shmelev’s symbols and motives in the novel „The Sun for Dead“. In the result it was possible to identify keys symbols and images. Without it the author’s idea would have been lost. This is the image of the sun and death, collapse and revival.

Keywords: I. S. Shmelev, neorealism, the epic, the sun, Christian motifs.

Anastasia Mitina

The symbolism and motifs of the „Most Terrible Book“ (based on the epic by I. S. Shmelev „The Sun for Dead“)