«… А terrible anathema is roaring» (riddles of one of Ahmatova’s octastich)

Authors

  • Владимир Павлович Казарин ректор Таврического национального университета имени В. И. Вернадского (Киев)
  • Марина Алексеевна Новикова Taurida National V.I. Vernadsky University image/svg+xml

Keywords:

A. Akhmatova, M. Zoschenko, M. Lozinsky, O. Mandelstam, B. Pasternak, octet (1959), «the anaphema», intertextual and interbiographic links, «the thaw», memory/oblivion as an equivalent to life/death

Abstract

The paper examins the unpublished (within her life) verse by Anna A. Akhmatova (1959). It is one of the late poet’s reflections on the ill-famed Soviet Communist Party’s Central Committee Resolution (1946). This document contained pogrom-like criticism of Akhmatova’s and Zoschenko’s literary practice. It had not been denounced up to 1988. Thus, Akhmatova’s key symbol «anathema» and references «Libava (now Liepaja, former Libau)» and «Vladivostok» are commented in historical, social and literary contexts.

Author Biographies

  • Владимир Павлович Казарин, ректор Таврического национального университета имени В. И. Вернадского (Киев)
    доктор филологических наук, профессор
  • Марина Алексеевна Новикова, Taurida National V.I. Vernadsky University

    доктор филологических наук, профессор кафедры русской
    и зарубежной литературы

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Published

2017-12-12

Issue

No. 76 (2017)

Section

Analysis of the artistic text and the integrity of the work of art

How to Cite

«… А terrible anathema is roaring» (riddles of one of Ahmatova’s octastich). (2017). The Journal of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Series “Philology”, 76, 303-312. https://periodicals.karazin.ua/philology/article/view/9334

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