ARTISTIC PECULIARITIES OF GAITO GAZDANOV’S “AN EVENING WITH CLAIRE” NOVEL: BETWEEN TRADITION AND THE AVANT-GARDE
The paper studies artistic peculiarities of G. Gazdanov’s “An Evening with Claire” debut novel. The novel represents a unique frontier phenomenon in the 20th century Russian literary history based on classical and modern literature which came from trends of traditionalism and sometimes crosses the borders of the avant-garde space. Combining classical and modern literary traditions and elements of other arts (music, painting) of the first third of the 20th century in Russia and Europe, G. Gazdanov’s “An Evening with Claire” novel demonstratively showed creative power and potential of the younger generation of Russian émigré writers and established new trends of unique artistic synthesis of Russian and Western literature.
Keywords: G. Gazdanov, “An Evening with Claire”, Russian émigré literature, first “wave” of Russian emigration, the younger generation of émigré writers, Russian Paris
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Issue: 7, 2016
Series of issue: Issue 7
Rubric: RUSSIAN AND FOREIGN LITERATURE OF XX CENTURY
Pages: 172 — 178
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