Open AccessYuly Aykhenvald and Petr Bitsilli: Reconstruction of the philosophical and aesthetic dialogue
Author(s) -
Е.А. Тахо-Годи
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
literaturnyj fakt
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2542-2421
pISSN - 2541-8297
DOI - 10.22455/2541-8297-2020-16-322-336
Subject(s) - newspaper , theme (computing) , russian literature , russian language , obituary , literature , poetry , interpreter , history , philosophy , classics , art history , art , sociology , linguistics , media studies , theology , computer science , programming language , operating system
The article compares for the first time the philosophical and aestheticviews on Russian literature and language of two prominent representatives of Russianabroad — the critic Yu.I. Aykhenvald (1872–1928) and the medievalist, interpreterof Russian classics P.M. Bitsilli (1879–1953). A full overview of factual materialsidentified to date is given, confirming the mutual interest of Yu.I. Aykhenvald andP.M. Bitsilli: documents from P.M. Bitsilli collection at the Institute of Russian literature (Pushkin House) of the RAS, Yu.I.Aykhenvald’s review from the Berlin newspaper“Rul'”on P.M. Bitsilli’s “Studies on Russian Poetry”, obituary of Yu.I. Aykhenvald,which was published by P.M. Bitsilli in the Sofia newspaper “Golos”. Among the issues raised are the impact which Aykhenvald’s immanent method of analyzing a literary text had on P.M. Bitsilli’s aesthetically individualizing method, the approaches ofboth authors to solving the morphology of Russian culture and philosophy of the nation, the connection of the Pushkin theme with thoughts about the fate of post-revolutionary Russia and Russian language in their works, which they articulated duringthe discussion of S. and A. Volkonsky’s book “In defense of the Russian language”.