Tajni dnevnik Aleksandra Puškina
The Secret Diary of Aleksandr Pushkin

Summary/Abstract: Tajnye zapiski 1836–1837 godov A. S. Puškina is a collection of observations written upon the familiar themes from Russian national poet A. S. Pushkin everyday life; themes like marrying Natalia Goncharova, Dantes flirting episode with poet’s wife, erotic games with his mistresses, tense relations with the Russian emperor etc. The exact time when »secret diary« is written is not specified, but the author generaly holds to well-known chronology of Pushkin’s life and thematically separates and completes every graphically marked segment of the text. That way the reader gets the illusion as if the text was written in a diary-from. The dominant of major component of the diary are words and expressions that have been socially tabooed. They are also the writer’s mean for directing, determining and rearranging all other elements of the text, as well as providing integrality and wholeness of the material. As a »text force«, they are fully recognized on the formal narrative level. The issue here, therefore, is the mystification of Pushkin’s diary, officially ended in 1835, but present, ever since, as a legend in Russian cultural area. Considering the status that Pushkin occupies in national culture, plus Russian relationship towards immoral tradition, The Secret Diary has not been yet published in Russian. In this scholarly work, the author shows how the whole concept of Russian literature and Russian life have been massacred and destroyed by the »editor« of usurper of The Secret Diary. This way the legendary Russian literature, literature built on Pushkin and literature that has been the source strongest comfort for Russian people in tragic circumstances of their history, is now impudently shaken.

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