Chapter Преломление образа Фауста у Вячеслава Иванова
Abstract
In 1993 Michael Wachtel published Ivanov’s Russian Faust, comprising two scenes that appear to continue Goethe’s Faust and most likely represent the beginnings of a Faust drama. Ivanov was the first Russian poet to reevaluate the second part of Goethe’s poem for its extremely symbolic content. As a result, he was considerably influenced by Goethe’s creative experience. This article examines these two Faustian scenes and, more generally, the influence of Goethe’s Faust in Ivanov’s work; adopting a comparative approach, we explore the assimilation into Russian literature of a Central European myth.
Keywords
Vjačeslav Ivanov; Faust; Goethe; Reception of Faust; Russian SymbolismDOI
10.36253/978-88-6453-910-2.16ISBN
9788864539102, 9788864539102Publisher
Firenze University PressPublisher website
https://www.fupress.com/Publication date and place
Florence, 2019Series
Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici, 43Classification
Sociology