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Name: Siberia and the Caucasus: the two paradisal poles in Gaito Gazdanov’s artistic topography

Authors: Proskurina Elena Nikolaevna

Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation

In the section Study of literature

Abstract: The article analyzes the functioning of the images of Siberia and the Caucasus in the artistic topography of Gaito Gazdanov. In spite of their peripheral position, both regions play a key role in the mnemonic poetics of Gazdanov: Siberia is represented as a symbol of Russia, while the Caucasus is a nostalgic image of the homeland of the autobiographical protagonist.

Keywords: literature of the first wave of emigration, writings of gaito gazdanov, mnemonics, artistic topography, siberian text, literary caucasus

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