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Gli anni Sessanta a Leningrado

Luci e ombre di una Belle Époque
  • Edited by:
  • Stefania Pavan,

This book offers a portrait of Leningrad in the 1960s, of its cultural life in those years permeated by a great hope for change. Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, is the heir and witness of the rise and fall of the 'Soviet hope' for an authentic change, its evolution and its inevitable decline. Through an analysis of the poems of Iosif Brodskij, Stefania Pavan maps out the process that led the intelligencija of Leningrad to disclose their claims, to give shape to the intellectual conscience of the city, and that subsequently constrained them to adopt the opposite approach, concealing – in a semi-visible space and in the myriad modes of the 'samizdat' – the values, names and images of the hope of change. Through an analysis of the linguistic peculiarities of The dregs , one of the 'classic' short stories of Boris Ivanov, Simonetta Signorini proposes a micro-history of the Russian language in the 60s, to which the study carried out by Ljudmila Zubova on the poems of Viktor Sosnora makes a useful contribution. The essay by Irina Dvizova highlights an aspect of the culture of Leningrad that can be considered extremely topical, in terms both of argument and as a method of reading literary history: the relation between the city and the Dostoevskij museum.

  • Keywords:
  • Poesia,
  • Slavistica,
  • letteratura straniera,
  • Russia,
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Stefania Pavan

University of Florence, Italy

Stefania Pavan teaches Russian literature at the University of Florence. Her research is principally engaged with twentieth-century literature – Brodskij, Nabokov, Sinjavskij inter alia – and at pointing up the different links between Russian and Italian culture: the Italians and the Puškinskij dom, the Russians and the Teatro comunale together with Stefano Garzonio.
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Book Title

Gli anni Sessanta a Leningrado

Book Subtitle

Luci e ombre di una Belle Époque

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Stefania Pavan

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Publication Year

2009

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Firenze University Press

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978-88-8453-961-8

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978-88-9273-756-3

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Biblioteca di Studi di Filologia Moderna

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2420-8361

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