Aleksandr Kuprin’s France

Aleksandr Kuprin’s France Alexandr Kuprin has visited France twice, first in 1912 during his several-months travel around Europe, second time however was a totally different. Since 1920 until 1937, he was living in Paris as an immigrant. Kuprin’s attitude towards France was ambivalent. The prose w...

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Main Author: Nel Bielniak
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Language:deu
Published: Pomeranian University Publishing House 2015-10-01
Series:Polilog: Studia Neofilologiczne
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Online Access:https://polilog.pl/index.php/polilog/article/view/139
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description Aleksandr Kuprin’s France Alexandr Kuprin has visited France twice, first in 1912 during his several-months travel around Europe, second time however was a totally different. Since 1920 until 1937, he was living in Paris as an immigrant. Kuprin’s attitude towards France was ambivalent. The prose writer, despite appreciation for the foreign country’s positive aspects – rich culture, interesting people and excellent cuisine – was experiencing negative perception of the new environment, merely because it was not his beloved motherland. In Kuprin’s output of his immigration period it is noticeable to see attempts of assimilation into new reality throughout searching for comparisons between French and Russian reality creating characteristic map of smells, sounds, colors and textures, which in his opinion, perfectly describe France or change of attitude towards French. Despite that, he was experiencing feeling of alienation, which seemed to be inseparable element of his emigrational existence. Moreover he is unable to get rid of tendency to confront French customs and scenery with idealized vision of his motherland.
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spelling doaj.art-319b5a8dfa214149b5add68341ecd78c2022-12-22T04:23:26ZdeuPomeranian University Publishing HousePolilog: Studia Neofilologiczne2083-54852015-10-015597010.34858/polilog.5.2015.005116Aleksandr Kuprin’s FranceNel Bielniak0Uniwersytet Zielonogórski Zielona Góra, PolskaAleksandr Kuprin’s France Alexandr Kuprin has visited France twice, first in 1912 during his several-months travel around Europe, second time however was a totally different. Since 1920 until 1937, he was living in Paris as an immigrant. Kuprin’s attitude towards France was ambivalent. The prose writer, despite appreciation for the foreign country’s positive aspects – rich culture, interesting people and excellent cuisine – was experiencing negative perception of the new environment, merely because it was not his beloved motherland. In Kuprin’s output of his immigration period it is noticeable to see attempts of assimilation into new reality throughout searching for comparisons between French and Russian reality creating characteristic map of smells, sounds, colors and textures, which in his opinion, perfectly describe France or change of attitude towards French. Despite that, he was experiencing feeling of alienation, which seemed to be inseparable element of his emigrational existence. Moreover he is unable to get rid of tendency to confront French customs and scenery with idealized vision of his motherland.https://polilog.pl/index.php/polilog/article/view/139franceemigrationalienationnostalgiasensory perception
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Aleksandr Kuprin’s France
Polilog: Studia Neofilologiczne
france
emigration
alienation
nostalgia
sensory perception
title Aleksandr Kuprin’s France
title_full Aleksandr Kuprin’s France
title_fullStr Aleksandr Kuprin’s France
title_full_unstemmed Aleksandr Kuprin’s France
title_short Aleksandr Kuprin’s France
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topic france
emigration
alienation
nostalgia
sensory perception
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