| Titre | Zamjatin : prophète ou témoin ? Nous autres et les réalités de son époque | |
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| Auteur | Leonid Heller | |
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Revue |
Cahiers du monde russe Titre à cette date : Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique |
| Numéro | volume 22, no 2-3, avril-septembre 1981 | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Articles |
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| Page | 137-165 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Leonid Heller, Zamiatin : prophet or witness? Us and the realities of his time.
The article studies the very close ties between E. Zamiatin's novel and his time. Us is inserted in the current of modernistic literature presenting a critical vision of society transformed by machinisation and Taylorism. This current goes from H. G. Wells to K. Capek passing through German expressionnists. Zamiatin attacks in particular the Proletkul't movement which dominates the cultural life in the post-revolutionary Russia. Whilst the style of the novel allows to classify it among vanguard works, it can also be considered as polemics against the construc-tivist artistic Utopias which developed in Russia towards 1920. On the other hand, the present article goes to show that many situations described in the novel are inspired directly by the political and social life within the structure of the Soviet state during the years 1918-1920. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/cmr_0008-0160_1981_num_22_2_1910 |
