TOLSTOY'S MIKHAILOV, THE PAINTER OF ANNA'S PORTRAIT, AND CONSTANTIN GUYS, BAUDELAIRE'S PAINTER OF MODERN LIFE Cover Image

TOLSTOY'S MIKHAILOV, THE PAINTER OF ANNA'S PORTRAIT, AND CONSTANTIN GUYS, BAUDELAIRE'S PAINTER OF MODERN LIFE
TOLSTOY'S MIKHAILOV, THE PAINTER OF ANNA'S PORTRAIT, AND CONSTANTIN GUYS, BAUDELAIRE'S PAINTER OF MODERN LIFE

Author(s): Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Универзитет у Нишу
Keywords: Tolstoy; Anna Karenina; Baudelaire; Constantine Guys; Lacan; the gaze; Foucault; Archaeology; Les francais peints par eux-memes; Russkie spisannye s naturi russkimi;

Summary/Abstract: The paper argues that Tolstoy's Realism does not rely on a mimetic representation of 'reality'. In Anna Karenina what operates is a poetics of the 'gaze' (what Lacan called 'le regard'), which resonates with the poetics of an artist like Constantin Guys, whom Baudelaire called 'a painter of modern life.' While not claiming that Tolstoy based his Mikhailov on Guys, the paper uncovers parallels between the painter as (Foucault's) 'archeologist' or local historian and Milhailov's artistic method based on the recovery of memory as trace and interpretation of signs.

  • Issue Year: 03/2005
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 151-160
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: English
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