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Titre « Et je fus compté au nombre des scélérats » : le thème de la trahison dans le poème d'Aleksej Remizov Juda
Auteur Sergei Dotsenko
Mir@bel Revue Revue des Etudes Slaves
Numéro Vol. 77, no 4, 2006 La figure de Judas Iscariote dans la culture russe
Rubrique / Thématique
La figure de Judas Iscariote dans la culture russe
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Page 587-598
Résumé anglais 'Added to the Evil': the Theme of Betrayal in the Poem Judas by A. Remizov The spread of autobiographical themes in Remizov's works was also seen in places, where it was hardly imaginable in the way. Не often added some autobiographical features to his versions of apocryphal stories. Moreover, for Remizov the choice of the apocryphal story is strongly dependent on his autobiographical features. That is why his poem Judas (1903) is worth essential attention. Due to the high importance of the motif of betrayal in his own biography, he also chose it as a subject of his writings. By the time he wrote Judas, Remizov's biography concealed two épisodes tighly connected with the theme of betrayal. Concerning the two themes of betrayal and rejection in the story of Judas, the poem is an attempt not only to give explanation to the evangelic story, but to explain some of his own biography as well. Well-known is writer's saying: 'While listening The Passion of Matthias by Bach I could clearly hear the weakening of Peter in the tinkling story told by the Evangelist, and after the cock-crow did I feel sharply the despair of Judas. What sort of sin or crime caused this feeling in me? I think that I was born into this world in the wrong time. As though I wormed myself into this world without being neither wanted nor welcome.' Remizov implicitly identified himself with Judas and his tale of Judas is simultaneously a tale of himself.
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