Open AccessАнглофонный диптих о России и русских Вирджинии Вулф и Джона Стейнбека
Author(s) -
Oksana Weretiuk
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
studia rossica posnaniensia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2720-703X
pISSN - 0081-6884
DOI - 10.14746/strp.2020.45.2.1
Subject(s) - soul , character (mathematics) , russian literature , perception , everyday life , period (music) , literature , point (geometry) , history , aesthetics , art , sociology , philosophy , epistemology , geometry , mathematics
The paper deals with the reception of the Russian character (mind and soul) by two prominent anglophone writers: Virginia Woolf and John Steinbeck. Virginia Woolf recognizes the Russians and their soul through the perception of the great Russian masterpieces of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov (The Russian Point of View, essay, 1925); Steinbeck’s A Russian Journal, 1948, presents the Russians as they were observed by the American author in their everyday life, rebuilding their country after WWII. The genre specificity of each work, the differences of time, emotions and purpose of writing, the Russian “experience” of each author, determine a certain heterogeneity of understanding of Russia and Russians; nevertheless, both form a heterogeneous whole of the Anglophone perception.