Izvestiya of Saratov University.
Philology. Journalism
ISSN 1817-7115 (Print)
ISSN 2541-898X (Online)

Literary criticism

A Boring Story by A. P. Chekhov: Turgenev’s context

The article examines the originality of I. S. Turgenev's and A. P. Chekhov's artistic dialogue based on the stories The Diary of a Superfluous Man, A Boring Story, and the novel Fathers and Sons. Among Turgenev's works, the story The Diary of a Superfluous Man stands out as a significant artistic discovery. Not only does Turgenev capture the important features of his contemporary ("the ordinary" man of the 1840s), but he also creates a typologically universal character.

The poet and the conspirators: Towards the history of interpretations of O. Mandelstam’s poem “For Some the Winter Means Arak and Blue-Eyed Sparkling Punches...” (1922)

The article is an analysis of several interpretations of one of the key poems in Mandelstam's poetry of the 1920s, "For Some the Winter Means Arak and Blue-Eyed Sparkling Punches..." (1922). The purpose of the author is to identify and analyze the most problematic issues of this lyrical text and its interpretations in the scientific literature. The lyrical plot is based on the clash of different life positions of the conspirators and the protagonist. The logical and syntactic structure of the poem is intricately connected with the figurative structure.

The concept of human being in George Orwell’s oeuvre

Concentrating on the problems of the subject and the subjectivity, this article views George Orwell in the literary tradition the turn of the 19–20th centuries. The author of the article argues that Orwell's concern with the idea of human destruction under the influence of hostile forces, which are represented in Nineteen Eighty-Four by the Big Brother, the Inner Party and O'Brien, cannot be confined to the author's reaction to the catastrophic events of the 20th century and to his political views.

Analysis of Andrey Platonov’s works from the point of view of Taoism

This study aims to identify and analyze points of convergence between the philosophical content in the works of the Soviet writer Andrei Platonov (1899–1951) and the core concepts of Chinese Taoism.

The transfictional meta-character Jean-Baptiste Botul

This paper focuses on the figure of the fictional philosopher Jean-Baptiste Botul and his role in the discourse of contemporary French literature. To analyze this character, the work employs the concepts of transfictionality and meta-character. Botul was invented by the French satirical journalist Frédéric Pagès. His creation gained a widespread popularity among various figures in science and art, who continued to invent studies and works supposedly written by Botul.

Motives of game in A. O. Remez’s plays Happy Ending and Curse

The article is dedicated to the study of the theatrical legacy of Alexander Oskarovich Remez (1954–2001) – a Soviet and Russian playwright, who pioneered an atypical development line of the so-called "black comedy", where the game as a way of world perception and understanding becomes the dominant intratextual element.

Interpretation of N. V. Gogol’s comedy The Government Inspector in China in the second half of the 20th century: Translation by Man Tao

This paper examines the interpretative issues surrounding the Chinese translation of the comedy The Government Inspector, with a particular focus on the rendition by a translator and a literary figure Man Tao (1916–1978). Man Tao was the fifth translator in the 20th century to translate this classic comedy into Chinese.

Family and the role of woman in the novels of G. Flaubert Madame Bovary and J. Fazel’s Love and Tears

This article examines the issue of family and the position of women through a comparative analysis of Gustave Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary (1856) and Javad Fazel Larijani's Love and Tears (1952). The analysis reveals that for both authors the family serves as a central concept shaping the life trajectories of their female protagonists.

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