| Titre | Konstantin Paustovskij, écrivain modèle [Notes pour une approche du réalisme socialiste*] | |
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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 26, no 3-4, juillet-décembre 1985 | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Articles |
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| Page | 313-352 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Leonid Heller, Konstantin Paustovskii, model writer. An approach to socialist realism.
The present article should be classified among works the principal objective of which is to depict the specificity of the Soviet literature. The work of K. Paustovskii is considered here as highly significant in this respect.
The first half of the article deals with the stakes that determine the recuperation to which Paustovskii is subjected springing from critical outlooks between which there is but little compatibility. The second part is based on an analysis on several levels of the writer's texts. It is attempted to demonstrate that the fact that Paustovskii adopted a number of structural elements, pertaining to realist socialist esthetics, lead to a "neutralisation" of his own poetics. The analysis winds up on a series of questions presenting interest from the point of view of a more general discussion of socialist realism, such as the hierarchy of thematic styles, the role ot hackneyed phrases or the contusion of readers' age criteria, a characteristic phenomenon of massovaia literatura.
Paustovskii is viewed in this article as a "model" writer in both senses of the word. Valorized by opposite critical tendencies: "official" and "dissident", "western" and "émigré", his work appears as a model of marginal composition, entering also at the same time into the constitution of the system of socialist realism. Hence the study of Paustovskii allows to determine the limits of this system. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/cmr_0008-0160_1985_num_26_3_2049 |
