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The Reception of the West in Flor Vasiliev’s Poetic Cycle “From the Norwegian Notebook”
Research Article
Ethnic Culture Volume 8 No 2- Author:
- Victor L. Shibanov
- Work direction:
- World languages and literature
- Abstract:
- Udmurt poet Flor Vasiliev's cycle “From a Norwegian Notebook” (1967) exemplifies the depiction of a Western country, in which the author and his protagonist clearly demonstrate their patriotism without resorting to rhetoric or declaratory statements. The aim of the study is to examine the artistic specificity of Vasiliev's cycle and to identify the peculiarities of the reception of foreign space within it. The leading method is the historical-cultural approach, employing techniques of reception theory. The central collective subject of the poetic cycle is the collective we, representing a Soviet citizen who has arrived in a NATO country as part of a tourist group. The image of the people is recurring, embodying the spiritual strength and industriousness of northern people who remember the horrors of World War II. The images of Nansen and Edvard Grieg are actualized in the lyrical cycle as embodiments of the finest Norwegian spiritual qualities. The Udmurt poet sympathetically portrays a female immigrant working as a tour guide in a foreign country. F. Vasiliev perceives the West not so much in opposition as in the search for points of convergence between different cultures.
- Keywords:
- Udmurt literature, poetic cycle, Norway, Flor Vasiliev, reception