| Titre | La Révolution comme épreuve personnelle : le Journal de Leonid Andreev (1914-1919) | |
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| Auteur | Serge Rolet | |
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Revue | Revue des Etudes Slaves |
| Numéro | Vol. 79, no 3, 2008 Entre les genres. L'écriture de l'intime dans la littérature russe XIXe-XXe siècles | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Entre les genres l'écriture de l'intime dans la littérature russe XIXe-XXe siècles Articles |
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| Page | 361-374 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Revolution as Personal Ordeal : Leonid Andreev's Diary (1914-1919)
Written for the most part in Finland between April 1918 and September 1919, Andreev's Diary is not 'a writer's journal' as such. It relates important family events, and contains Andreev's general impressions on contemporary politics, as well as giving an insight into the writer's seriously impaired mental and physical health. Andreev thinks in a highly allusive, metaphorical way, which is both unconnected and obsessive. This produces discourse which, rather than being literary, is coarse and obscene.
In order to gain a better understanding of Andreev's stance on various issues (not just his hatred of Lenin and the Bolsheviks, but also his stinging criticism of supporters of bourgeois democracy and of those intellectuals who rushed to support the new régime), it is essential to place the diary in its context. By this we mean his active support for the war effort, and his work as editor of the patriotic journal Russkaja volja (Dec. 1916 – Oct. 1917). In Andreev's eyes, war and revolution are completely inseparable, which is why for him the victory of Bolshevism signifies the end of révolution. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | https://www.persee.fr/doc/slave_0080-2557_2008_num_79_3_7148 |
