ДИАЛОГ «СВОЕГО» И «ЧУЖОГО» В АМЕРИКАНСКИХ ВПЕЧАТЛЕНИЯХ В.Г. КОРОЛЕНКО
DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE NATIVE AND THE FOREIGN IN THE AMERICAN IMPRESSIONS OF V.G. KOROLENKO

Summary/Abstract: The paper is devoted to the analysis of various artistic, documentary, and publicistic works of V.G. Korolenko, which are united by the American theme. The materials used are the writer’s texts (travel notes, articles, and correspondence), both published and unpublished during his lifetime. The analysis allows us to see that V.G. Korolenko’s texts are not just ethno-graphic travel essays. They are rather his deep thoughts about the two images of the world – Russian and American, containing assessment of the pace of technological progress, ideals of freedom, respect for the individual, as well as attitude towards pragmatism and individualism. The writer’s characters of the foreign world are perceived through the use of natural and cultural contrasts. In his works, V.G. Korolenko brought up an important topic of national awareness based on the European and American realities. Overall, the study shows that the image of America appears in the works of V.G. Korolenko as more voluminous and ambiguous than it is generally assumed for the representative of critical realism. It is concluded that the impressions of the trip to the exhibition held in Chicago in 1893 turned out to be the basis for the subsequent literary art of V.G. Korolenko up to the end of his life.

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