Published: 2018-12-12

Soviet Armenia of Vasily Grossman — geopoetics of socrealism

Bartosz Gołąbek Logo ORCID

Abstract

Vasily Grossman is one of the most prominent and interesting writers of Soviet era. His journalist papers on II war period, and later on his major literary work, novel Life and Fate made his name famous among the best writers of Russian culture. When his famous Life and Fate novel was seized in 1960 by KGB (Grossman himself was never arrested by the Soviet authorities) his literary career broke for that moment. As a moral compensation Grossman got a special translation work in Armenia, which he managed to put into a special prose called An Armenian Sketchbook. Grossman writes up soviet Armenia with poetical instruments that we are able to analyze through geopoetics and socrealism. Some parts of Grossman’s Armenian Sketchbook, though, could also be understood by postcolonial interpretation.

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Gołąbek, B. (2018). Soviet Armenia of Vasily Grossman — geopoetics of socrealism. Rusycystyczne Studia Literaturoznawcze, 28, 11–34. https://doi.org/10.31261/RSL.2018.28.02

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Vol. 28 (2018)
Published: 2020-07-15


ISSN: 0208-5038
eISSN: 2353-9674
Ikona DOI 10.31261/RSL

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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