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„Edle Einfalt, stille Größe“: Ivan Gončarov v kontekste tradicij klassicizma
| Title in English | „Edle Einfalt, stille Größe“: Ivan Goncharov in the Context of the Neoclassicist Traditions |
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| Year of publication | 2021 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Ivan Gončarov i jevropejskij klassicizm i neoklassicizm |
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| Keywords | Ivan Goncharov and the poetics of neoclassicism novels; literary criticism; balance; quietness; topicality of neoclassicism |
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| Description | The author of the present study investigates the poetics and the principles of neoclassicism in life and work of the Russian novelist, literary critic and censor Ivan Goncharov. He finds them not only in his novels, but also in his diaries of the novel character dealing with his voyage round the world and in his critical sketches. The poetics of neoclassicism, i. e. the cult of balance, harmony and quietness as an aesthetic category of the beautifil, especially in connection with the philosophy of the Enlightenment represent the basis of Goncharov’s life and work. The exotism of his work as it was understood, above all, by the West-European and American researchers led to his popularity more with his investigators than with the reading public. In connection with the crucial changes and cataclysms, and the general crisis of the contemporary world and society, political systems and the human as such Ivan Goncharov’s work based on conservatism of values and the firm pillars of human life, strenthen its inspiring character in various European literatures. |