Spomínanie Viktora Pivovarova a Dmitrija Prigova: Moskovské obrazy emancipácie a spolupatričnosti
Recollections of Viktor Pivovarov and Dmitrij Prigov: Moscow Images of Liberation and Community
Author(s): Jakub KapičiakSubject(s): Political Philosophy, Social history, Comparative Study of Literature, Russian Literature, Politics of History/Memory
Published by: AV ČR - Akademie věd České republiky - Slovanský ústav and Euroslavica
Keywords: Russian literature; cultural memory; Eidos; life writing; memoir boom; Moscow conceptualism; Moscow text; underground culture;
Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to explore the issue of individual and collective liberation and creation of the community by the means of literary texts written in the life writing genres. For this purpose, the study analyzes texts by Moscow conceptualists Viktor Pivovarov (1937) and Dmitry Prigov (1940–2007). Each of the selected texts represents different approach to life writing. While Prigov’s novel Zhivite v Moskve (2000) is written in the form of autofiction, Pivovarov’s Vlyublyonny agent (2001) is a more conventionally conceived autobiography. The article analyses the image of Moscow in both texts. Such an approach highlights the intertwinement between the motifs of liberation, community, cultural memory and imagination. The narration of unknown subjective and even fictional stories situated into the city of Moscow is interpreted as a symbolic act of liberation of individuals as well as of the communities of underground artists.
Journal: Slavia - časopis pro slovanskou filologii
- Issue Year: XCIII/2024
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 316-328
- Page Count: 13
- Language: Slovak
