Interpretation of travels. Russia and America in travelogues and intertexts

The cultural dialogue between Russia and America has lasted centuries, despite all historical obstacles. The writers and philosophers of both countries carefully monitored the political, social and artistic experiments of each other. Real and imaginary travels for the ocean that they committed for this helped them comprehend the experience of another and better understand themselves. These contacts and fantasies gave rise to unusual rapprochement of ideas and plots. Reading the well -known texts of Russian and American literary traditions from the point of view of the relationship of two cultures, Alexander Etkind offers their new interpretations. How did Pushkin read the famous Tokville treatise on how the American ambassador entered the Bulgakov Roman, and the girl from Leningrad had an influence on the financial leaders of America? Why are the plots of Nabokov and Pasternak intertwined, and what story is told in the letters of Zinaida Trotskaya? Etkind is looking for answers to these questions using a method that he characterizes as "new historicism". For this publication, some chapters are processed and supplemented by the author. Alexander Etkind - cultural historian and literary critic, professor of the European University Institute in Florence and the Central European University in Vienna. The author of the Books" Inner Colonization published in the UFO. Imperial experience of Russia "," Krivnaya Woe. The memory of the immaculate "," nature of evil. Raw materials and state. "
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