Title of the article:

TO THE ISSUE OF STUDYING THE LITERARY RELATIONS OF K. CHAPEK AND A. N. TOLSTOY

Author(s):

Ksenia K. Maslova

Information about the author/authors

Ksenia K. Maslova — Researcher, Department of Scientific Edition, А. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya 25 а, 121069 Moscow, Russia.

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1059-3746

E-mail: ksema_maslova@mail.ru

Section

Philological sciences

Year

2023

Volume

Vol. 70

Pages

pp. 276–289

Received

December 01, 2023

Approved after reviewing

February 15, 2023

Date of publication

December 25, 2023

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2023-70-276-289

Index UDK

82.091

Index BBK

83(4Чех)

Abstract

The literary connections between these major writers have always been a subject of interest and study by researchers. In the works of foreign (I. Gaek, F. Burianek, I. Adamovich, etc.) and domestic (V. Shcherbina, O. M. Malevich, I. A. Bernstein, E. N. Kovtun, etc.) literary critics, the biography, the system of philosophical views, the creative path and the works of Karel Chapek and Alexei Nikolaevich Tolstoy have been thoroughly considered. However, the present paper is primarily focusing on research which deal with the comparative analysis of the work of these contemporary writers. There are few such works, and all of them are mostly discussing the influence of the socio-political views and positions of these two authors on their works. Out study will highlight and consider the main papers dedicated to the literary relations of K. Chapek and A. N. Tolstoy, summarizing and analyzing the views of researchers.

Keywords

Russian-Czech Literary Connections, Perception of Russian Literature, Russian-Slavic Literary Connections.

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