And eternal French ... Eleven articles from the history of French and Russian literature

Russian-French cultural and literary ties have more than one hundred years-it is not surprising that they left a mark in the work of the most famous authors-Pushkin, Lermontov, Vyazemsky, I. S. Turgenev. Placing the works of Russian and French writers in the international context, Vera Milchin, the leading researcher at the IVGI RSU and the steps of the RANEPA, comes to unexpected results. Cross-cultural analysis helps to see that Pushkin and Vyazemsky understood the novel by Benjam Constant “Adolf” not entirely like this or even at all like their French contemporaries, that Pushkin belonged to the two “master” of French literature-Stendhal and Victor Hugo-with neglect And even hostility, and the “canonical” Russian translations of Balzac in some cases inform us not at all what is written in the original. These and other stories show how unpredictable the process of adaptation of a literary work in someone else"s culture may turn out to be