Literary criticism

The article offers a history of the publication of translations of M. Jursenar's works into Russian since 1984 and systematizes the assessments and approaches to the work of the French writer, which have been developing in parallel in domestic criticism.

For the first time the article addresses little-known works of the popular children’s writer of the early ХХ century Lidia Charskaya, that are intended for the audience of adults. It is indicated that the writer used the same methods in her compositions regardless of the readers’ age. Nevertheless, she turned out to be a mediocre author for mature readers.

In the article Faulkner’s interpretation of the Southern estate features is analyzed in novels «The Sound and the Fury» and «Absalom, Absalom!» in the context of the literary tradition of the South. The oppositions «mansion – forest», «forest – garden», «mansion – stable», «dining room – kitchen» are characterized as a part of the basic opposition of «natural – cultural».

In the article the author regards the personality and oeuvre of A. I. Solzhenitsyn («Gulag Archipelago», «Red Wheel», «Russia in Collapse») from the perspective of the unity of Russian spiritual culture in relation to two political philosophies: conservatism and radicalism. Ideas of the Russian religious philosophy expounded in the works by S. L. Frank underlie the theoretical foundation of the paper. A special role is dedicated to the polemic judgments of the writer.