Dekadencka Madonna, Biała Diablica, Lorelei... Zinaida Gippius w egodokumentach współczesnych
Decadent Madonna, White Devil, Lorelei... Zinaida Gippius in contemporary ego-documents

Summary/Abstract: The paper is devoted to Zinaida Gippius’s literary portraits left on the pagesof ego-documents, especially memoirs. She was one of the most significant figuresof the Russian Silver Age. At the end of the 19th and the beginning of the20th centuries, the writer created her own legend and image based on internalconflict, which in turn influenced the diversity of her portraits in memoirs.Their analysis leads to the conclusion that these portraits fit into the stereotyped,ambivalent perception of a woman, and majority of the authors reveal thetendency to mythologize and dehumanize her heroine: on the one hand herdivinization, and on the other – reification. It also proves that the memoirist hadperpetuated and widened the legend about her.

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