The publicist and metaliterature aspects of V. Grossman’s play “If you believe the Pythagoreans”
https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2023-10-78-99
Abstract
V.S. The article analyzes the publicist component of V. Grossman’s play “If You Believe the Pythagoreans” that raised a polemic in the central Soviet press in 1946. The researcher studies the historical and philosophic concept of the play and comes to a conclusion that the opinion of the work as being anti-Soviet, advocating the cyclical nature of history is groundless. Yet, the foreword gives some clue to the text as being a metaliterature one.
About the Author
Yu. G. Bit-Yunan
Russian State University for the Humanities ; Presidential Academy
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Yurii G. Bit-Yunan, D. Sci. (Philology)
6, Miusskaya Sq., Moscow, 125047
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Review
For citations:
Bit-Yunan Yu.G. The publicist and metaliterature aspects of V. Grossman’s play “If you believe the Pythagoreans”. RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2023;(10):78-99. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2023-10-78-99
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