Title of the article:

“TO YOU, WITH YOU, TO FIND MYSELF BEING YOURS…”: RESPONSE TO THE BOOK  “A. A. BLOK — L. D. MENDELEYEVA-BLOK. CORRESPONDENCE 1901–1917 YEARS” (MOSCOW, IMLI RAN Publ., 2017)

Author(s):

Svetlana V. Fedotova

Information about the author/authors

Svetlana V. Fedotova — DSc in Philology, Assistant Professor, А. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya St., 25 а, 121069 Moscow, Russia. E-mail: lucia-th@yandex.ru

Section

Reviews

Year

2018

Volume

Vol. 49

Pages

Рp. 371–378

Received

March 14, 2018 

Date of publication

September 15, 2018

Index UDK

82-6

Index BBK

83.3(2Рос=Рус)53

Abstract

The review is to examine a unique edition of A. A. Block’s bilateral correspondence with his wife. Aspects explored are the scientific approaches of compilers and commentators to Correspondence as an integral literary fact, which is of great importance in terms of understanding the phenomenon of “life creation” at the turn of the XX century and the dramatic fate of its participants. Particular attention is paid to communicative strategies of correspondents in the joint production of epistolary discourse in common. The study reveals the role of L. D. Mendeleyeva-Block in formation of the erotic mode of correspondence through the example of examination of signatures and farewell formulas in the letters.

Keywords

A. A. Block, L. D. Mendeleyeva-Block, correspondence, “life creation”, “novel in letters”, literary fact, epistolary discourse, signatures, farewell formulas.

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