Open AccessWspominane, wyobrażone, przesunięte. Rosja i Francja w emigracyjnej korespondencji Zinaidy Gippius
Author(s) -
Iwona Krycka-Michnowska
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
acta neophilologica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2450-0852
pISSN - 1509-1619
DOI - 10.31648/an.6231
Subject(s) - emigration , homeland , the imaginary , identity (music) , limit (mathematics) , history , sociology , political science , art , psychoanalysis , law , psychology , aesthetics , mathematics , archaeology , mathematical analysis , politics
The topic of this article are the letters of Zinaida Gippius from 1920-1945, which permit one to read the images of Russia and France contained therein as the result of the emigration experience. The analysis of correspondence leads to the conclusion that emigration shapes the identity of the writer, who over the years begins to perceive France as her new home and new homeland. However, in creating her autobiographical place, Gippius does not limit herself to one model. In her correspondence permanently there is a tension between Russian and French fate. Next to the aforementioned and Bolshevik Russia there is the picture of a new, imaginary Russia: free, just, based on the principles of brotherhood.