Battlefield memories of the youth in Yu. N. Ivanov’s oeuvre: The novel In a besieged city
This article analyses Yu. N. Ivanov’s novel In a Besieged City, which was inspired by the author’s battlefield memories. Yu. N. Ivanov pictures the city as he saw it in April 1945. It is shown how descriptions of the works of architecture and art contribute to the artistic understanding of the histo...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University
2017-11-01
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| Series: | Слово.ру: балтийский акцент |
| Online Access: | https://journals.kantiana.ru/eng/slovo/3634/10100/ |
| Summary: | This article analyses Yu. N. Ivanov’s novel In a Besieged City, which was inspired by the author’s battlefield memories. Yu. N. Ivanov pictures the city as he saw it in April 1945. It is shown how descriptions of the works of architecture and art contribute to the artistic understanding of the history of Königsberg. The literary text based on what the author saw and experienced helps him to not only immerse himself in the past and relive it but also rewrite the past and change it to fit his concept of it. |
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| ISSN: | 2225-5346 2686-8989 |