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The Cult of Pushkin in the Context of Popular Literature Over the Course of a Century (1837–1937): Kalavszky Zsófia: A totális Puskin. Populáris műfajok a Puskin-kultuszban, 1837–1937 [Zsófia Kalavszky: Total Pushkin. Popular genres shaping Pushkin’s cult between 1837–1937]. Budapest, Reciti, 2024, 398 p. ISBN: 978-963-672-015-5
Views:117The publication of Zsófia Kalavszky’s monograph is a landmark event in the field of Russian studies in Hungary. In this thorough scholarly work, Kalavszky explores the nature of the Pushkin cult, offering important findings into the century following the Russian poet’s death and tracing his evolution into an iconic figure. Rather than focusing on commemorative texts by literary giants, she ventures into the realm of popular literature to track the shifts in the myth surrounding Pushkin, reflecting changes occurring in specific historical eras and within the receiving audience. The monograph conveys in-depth expertise in a way that makes it an engaging read for a broad audience.
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Angelika Molnar: Text, Genre, Word: Studies in Russian literature of the 19th–21st centuries. Moscow, Azbukovnik 2022, 424 pp. ISBN 978-5-91172-221-0
Views:346This review contains a critical analysis of Angelika Molnar's new book, her monograph entitled Text, genre, word: Studies in the Russian literature of the 19th-21st centuries is devoted to various texts of different eras from Pushkin’s to Sorokin’s, however, the focus of the study is Molnár's favorite Russian writer, Goncharov, whose work, unfortunately, rarely attracts the attention of Western researchers. In Molnár's book, the main, clearly indicated methodological principle is discursive poetics, which works well when studying intertexts within the framework of both large and small literary and historical series. Therefore, Russian literature is considered by the researcher as a single text in which the "old" is updated by the "new". The review emphasizes the significance of the monograph, which first of all offers an up-to-date interpretationof Russian classics in the context of modernity. The book will be of interest both to a professional researcher of Russian literature and to everyone who is interested in Russian culture and the Russian worldview.
