Mnogofunkcionaľnosť russkich literaturovedov v mežvojennoj Čechoslovakii – klaster kejs stadi
| Title in English | Russian Emigré Literary Scholars in Interwar Czechoslovakia – a cluster of case studies |
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| Year of publication | 2020 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | The author of the present study analyzes the phenomenon of multifunctionality of Russian emigré literary scholars in interwar Czechoslovakia at the example of several personalities associated with various skills and talents, among them the Evgeny Lyatsky (1868-1942), lecturer of Russian literature at Charles University, Roman Jakobson (1896-1982), who was not a political emigré, a dialectologist, phonologist, theorist of the verse, specialist in Old Czech literature, textologist, professor of Russian philology at Masaryk University, a medievist/medievalist Sergii Vilinsky (1876-1950), professor of Russian literature at Masaryk University, his son Valery Vilinsky (1903-1955), a man of rather complicated and tragic fate, a law scholar, theologist, journalist, historian and critic of literature, sociologist, ethnologist etc., the Kiev native of German origin Alfred Bem (1886-?1945) who was abducted by the NKVD and disappeared without a trace somewhere in the U.S.S.R. (in 1945). He founded Dostoevsky Society in Prague, dealt with Leo Tolstoy, Alexander Pushkin, but also with Russian Soviet literature. The all manifest the multifunctionality of Russian emigrés-literary scholars who in new circumstances were forced to adapt to local demand and to the dominant discourse. |