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Colombo Duccio
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Aleksandr Prochanov, o la Crimea come antidoto al postmoderno
2019
When Aleksandr Prokhanov’s Mr. Hexogen appeared in 2001 most critics perceived it as a postmodern novel – a totally unexpected move from this author, a long-standing Soviet writer and a leader of the Stalinist-nationalist opposition. The work shows indeed some features in common with, for instance, Babylon by Viktor Pelevin, one of the most popular Russian postmodern writers. Both novels demonstrate a phantasmagoric picture of the hidden side of Russian political life: if, however, in Pelevin’s case the intent is clearly ironic, Mr. Hexogen can be read as a book aimed to convey the view that the Moscow terrorist attacks of winter 1999 were designed in order to ensure Putin’s raise to presid…
Babij Jar: lo sterminio taciuto e l’arte dell’eufemismo
2020
Confrontando le poesie dedicate al massacro di Babij Jar (lo sterminio metodico di tutta la popolazione ebraica rimasta a Kiev dopo la conquista nazista) da Il’ja Erenburg ed Evgenij Evtušenko dovremmo con ogni probabilità considerare superiore quella del primo. La sua qualità poetica deriva in gran parte dall’uso dell’allusione, del non detto, che apre spazi semantici superiori; questa caratteristica deriva però probabilmente da un caso di necessità: Erenburg, che scriveva nel 1945, cercava evidentemente una strada per far penetrare alla stampa una commemorazione delle vittime di Babij Jar in un periodo in cui, in Unione Sovietica, era impossibile farlo in modo più esplicito – nella prima …
Viktor Sklovskij na Belomorkanale: literator kak razvedcik
2017
Viktor Shklovskii actively participated in the infamous collective volume about the White Sea-Baltic canal (1934). He did not, however, take part in the writers’ excursion organized by the OGPU: he had travelled to the lager alone well before that, looking for his convicted brother. This is, at least, the version the writer was trying to spread in his senior years, clearly trying to diminish his responsibility for a book glorifying slave labour in the Soviet camps in the eyes of the progressive intelligentsia. In the post-Stalin years, a new role-model for writers emerged, offering an alternative to the previous forced choice between “general” and “martyr”: we could call this third option t…