Papers by Veronika Altachina
Studia litterarum, 2024
L'article s'adresse à l'autofiction "Fils" (1977) de Serges Doubrovsky (1928-2017) et au roman de... more L'article s'adresse à l'autofiction "Fils" (1977) de Serges Doubrovsky (1928-2017) et au roman de Nathalie Azoulai (née en 1966) "Titus n'aimait pas Bérénice" (2015) où l' oeuvre de Jean Racine joue un rôle primordial. Pour l'étudier, on s'adresse à la mise en abyme: la récursion est représentée par les citations et répétitions multiples, par l'omonymie (les personnages du roman d'Azoulai portent les prénoms de ceux de la tragédie racinienne "Bérénice"). Cette mise en abyme pose la micro-histoire (celle de Racine) à la place de la macro-histoire (celle qui met en scène le narrateur): l'oeuvre de Racine reflète les problèmes des protagonistes modernes et les aide à les résoudre. Cette déduction nous amène à la notion de l'autopoïèse qui signifie la propriété d'un système de se produire lui-même en permanence et en interaction avec son environnement, et de maintenir ainsi son organisation malgré le changement de ses composants. Les deux narrateurs-héros changent grâce à l'immersion profonde dans les tragédies de Racine: le "Livre-Texte" devient le "Livre-Vie." En analysant les aspects spécifiques des tragédies de Racine, chères aux deux écrivains, on comprend leur valeur dans le rétablissement et la réconstruction des personnages modernes. Selon J.-M. Schaeffer, l'immersion fictionnelle amène à la modélisation mimétique qui est l'étape centrale de "tout apprentissage par observation" applicable à notre vie quotidenne.
The article researches genre specifics of the memoir novel, which not only was extremely popular ... more The article researches genre specifics of the memoir novel, which not only was extremely popular in 18th century French literature, but also had an important impact on the development of the first-person narration and the rise of the psychological novel in the 19th and 20th centuries. Research into memoirs from the 17th century (still popular at the beginning of the following century) helps to reveal the structural and artistic features used by later writers who-in an attempt to rehabilitate the novel, a genre that by the 18th century had lost readers' love and trust were trying to make their works look authentic, which defined their orientation to the documentary genres. Complex analysis of seven memoir novels representative of the literary process of the epoch (the first dates back to 1731, the last to 1786) is used to define genre-specific characteristics and show how the memoir novel evolved, losing an illusion of verisimilitude and making use of new techniques that served l...
Key words: autobiographical pact, self-knowledge, auto fiction, reality, fiction, modern French l... more Key words: autobiographical pact, self-knowledge, auto fiction, reality, fiction, modern French literature. Autofiction is one of the dominant trends in the development of modern French prose. The term was proposed by S. Dubrovsky in the late 1970s and was extremely tempting for writers who wanted to join the «auto» and «fiction», to give artistic form to documentary storytelling. In recent decades the term has acquired a broad interpretation and attracted a wide variety of writers: Gary Michon, Sollers, Welbeck, Beigbeder, Modiano, Duras, Le Clezio, Erno, etc., which are constructing in their works an endless “Lego from ego”. If in the early years of creativity are dominated by a fictional component, that many later moving to strengthen the documentary to the autobiography, which is currently taking on the traits of artistry. Autofiction is widely studied in France, where regular conferences are held and it is published collections of papers and monographs. The article on the basis...
Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie, 2015
Studia Litterarum, 2022
The article represents the first academic study of two early Montesquieu’s works — “The Temple of... more The article represents the first academic study of two early Montesquieu’s works — “The Temple of Gnidos” (1725) and “Journey to Paphos” (1727). Under the guise of ancient heroes and gods these “novels with a key” portray real people easily recognizable by contemporaries — the author himself and his entourage. Mixing reality and fiction, Greek and Roman gods, using allegories, Montesquieu creates a “possible impossible world,” characteristic for the Baroque literature of the 17th century. The term was proposed by L. Dolezel, the founder of the theory of “possible worlds,” which allows a deeper understanding of how Montesquieu portrays an ideal world, opposed to the French reality, which he criticizes, as in his first novel “Persian Letters.” However, such features as fragmentation, frivolity, double meaning, hedonism are characteristic of the Rococo aesthetics that took shape in France at the beginning of the 18th century. These features are also inherent to such recognized author’s...
Cet article est consacre au role des traductions de romans francais dans le developpement de la l... more Cet article est consacre au role des traductions de romans francais dans le developpement de la litterature russe du XVII e siecle. Les ecrivains francais donnerent non seulement des modeles pour la construction du recit et l’expression des sentiments, mais de plus la nouveaute de leurs idees fit l’objet de prefaces redigees par les traducteurs eux-memes afin de donner droit de cite au roman, en demontrant sa valeur morale et esthetique. The article deals with the role of translations of French novels in the development of Russian Literature in XVIII century. Not only French writers give example for the construction of plot and the expression of sentiments, the Russian translators discuss the new and reformative ideas in their prefaces and contribute to prove moral and aesthetic value of novel and legalize its place.
Proceedings of Southern Federal University. Philology, 2021
The article describes functional mechanism of heroine’s metempsychosis in the Oriental and Occide... more The article describes functional mechanism of heroine’s metempsychosis in the Oriental and Occidental Cinderella fairy-tale. According to the classification of Aarne - Thompson, these tales belong to the type 510 A “persecution of the heroine”, which is associated with a complex of other plots (510 B, 511, 511 A). We limit our research only to those tales in which the identification of the heroine occurs by the shoe. The origins of this literature phenomenon are disclosed in terms of religious conception and traditional believes of the representatives of the thai-kadai language group (IX-XIX centuries). For analysis the Zhuang, Thai and Lao versions of Cinderella fairy-tale were taken, the ritual and mythological aspect of fairytale narrative is disclosed on the material base. The article also describes functions of ancestors’ cult and discusses totemic attitude of the people of the East and South-East Asia in the functioning system of the oriental fairytale which all together form ...
Le « roseau pensant » dans la poésie russe Type de publication: Article de collectif Collectif: L... more Le « roseau pensant » dans la poésie russe Type de publication: Article de collectif Collectif: Lectures russes de Pascal. Hier et aujourd'hui Auteur: Altashina (Veronika) Résumé: Cet article est consacré à l'étude de l'image du « roseau pensant » dans la poésie russe du XIX au XXI siècle. C'est Fiodor Tioutchev qui contribue à ancrer cette image dans la poésie russe. Au début du XX siècle, ce sont Anna Akhmatova et Marina Tsvétaïeva qui ont recours à cette image poétique dans leurs oeuvres. Au XX et au XXI siècle, Pascal ne fait pas partie des penseurs les plus connus, mais on rencontre chez plusieurs poètes modernes la référence au « roseau pensant », devenu simple cliché.
Vestnik Pravoslavnogo Svâto-Tihonovskogo Gumanitarnogo Universiteta: Seriâ III. Filologiâ, 2018
Lectures russes de Pascal Hier et aujourd'hui Type de publication: Collectif Directeurs d'ouvrage... more Lectures russes de Pascal Hier et aujourd'hui Type de publication: Collectif Directeurs d'ouvrage: Lesourd (Françoise), Thirouin (Laurent) Résumé: Pascal est le penseur français le plus lu en Russie. Ce volume fait un bilan des études pascaliennes en Russie contemporaine, il énumère les thèmes et les images associés à Pascal dans la philosophie et la poésie russes. Une place importante est aussi accordée à Léon Tolstoï lecteur de Pascal.
The report examines Marquis de Sade’s Justine as a possible prototype of Katerina Maslova, the he... more The report examines Marquis de Sade’s Justine as a possible prototype of Katerina Maslova, the heroine of Tolstoy's late novel 'Resurrection'. The comparison is carried out in several ways: 1) the name of the novel 2) the name and the fate of the heroine of 3) genre 4) philosophical problems 5) the beginning and the denouement 6) building plot 7) the image of the road 8) the transgression. The comparative analysis is based not only on the direct impact, but also takes into account the cross cultural borrowing
The Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein, one of the giants of world cinema and considered as one ... more The Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein, one of the giants of world cinema and considered as one of the ‘fathers of editing’, possessed a colossal and varied culture, in which French literature had an important place. He had a very good knowledge of Diderot’s aesthetic writings, which he often quoted in his theory of editing. This article, based on a study of Eisenstein’s writings, examines the role of Diderot’s ideas in the elaboration of Eisenstein’s conception of editing.
Studia Litterarum
Аннотация: В аристократической французской культуре XVII-XVIII вв.
Dix-huitième siècle, 2009
Izvestiya of Saratov University. New Series. Series: Philology. Journalism
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