Chapter Fonti europee e russe in Ruslan e Ljudmila di Puškin
Abstract
In Ruslan i Ljudmila, Puškin arranges European and Russian sources in a particular dialectic system that may be seen as illustrative of his poetics. Specifically, the poema’s dedication and its theme recall the novellas of Giambattista Casti; the narrating cat in the prologue may be connected to the celebrated fables of Tieck, Perrault, and Hoffmann; events and battle scenes in the text derive from the chronicles; and Ruslan’s deeds from lubočnaja literatura. Images of the “lascivious East”, together with other eroticized descriptive passages point to the well-known models of Moore, Byron, Goethe, and Parny, while in the weave of Ruslan i Ljudmila’s individual cantos, we find quotations from Macpherson, Ozerov, and Tasso.
Keywords
Puškin; Ruslan i Ljudmila; European literary models; Russian literary models; PoeticsDOI
10.36253/978-88-6453-910-2.24ISBN
9788864539102, 9788864539102Publisher
Firenze University PressPublisher website
https://www.fupress.com/Publication date and place
Florence, 2019Series
Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici, 43Classification
Sociology