Путевые очерки Бориса Зайцева периода эмиграции: аксиологические аспекты геопоэтики
Travel essays by Boris Zaitsev during the period of emigration: axiological aspects of geopoetics

Summary/Abstract: This report analyses the little-known travel essays by B.K. Zaitsev, previously published in the expat periodicals and recently published in St. Petersburg (B. Zaitsev, Glimpses of the Eternal. Unknown short stories, essays, memoirs, interviews / Comp., Entry article, subparagraph of the text and commentary by A.M. Lyubоmudrov. St. Petersburg: LLC Publishing House “Rostok”, 2018). The purpose of the analysis is to discover, in the material of travel essays by B.K. Zaitsev about France, Finland, and Italy, axiological constants characteristic of the writer’s worldview and to reveal the inherent features of geopoetics. This, for example, is the perception of modern life through the prism of religious and philosophical views, through the enduring values of world art. It is important to see that the writer was able in a small space of text to show the unique interdependence of history, the actual geographical space – the state, the city – and the national fate of peoples, which determines the ontological scale of his works.

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