کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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1103967 | 953874 | 2012 | 22 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
The Grand Lie, immanent to the totalitarian system of the Soviet Union – the betrayal of Utopian ideals, revaluation of all values, de-humanization of politics, omnipresence of political coercion, mendacious propaganda – is the subject matter of some largely cryptographic poems in the Moscow Notebooks (1930–1934) by Osip Mandelʼshtam, whose life was shattered by Stalinism and came to an end in a transit camp near Vladivostok in 1938. His poetic structure takes, among other devices, signalments of folk mythology and tropes to veil the direct statement: metonyms, metaphors and personification (e.g. the figure of “Untruth/Nepravda”). In addition, with the aid of allusions and an elaborate anagram technique, he introduces into his work the tabooed name of Stalin, the main representative of the sham façade of Soviet society.
Journal: Russian Literature - Volume 71, Issue 1, 1 January 2012, Pages 53-74