Genre originality and authorial strategies in F.M. Levin’s memoirs, diaries and autobiographical texts of the “Thaw” period and after 1967
Genre originality and authorial strategies in F.M. Levin’s memoirs, diaries and autobiographical texts of the “Thaw” period and after 1967
Левченко Т.В.
Levchenko Tatiana Viktorovna – PhD, chief expert, Center for Digital Archival Research, Faculty of humanities, Higher School of Economics
Abstract
The paper reviews unpublished ego-documents from the new-opened archive of literary critic F. Levin (manuscripts of memoirs: The Story of My cosmopolitanism (1958), From the memoirs (1962), Autobiography (1966) et cetera). Their genre pecularities and historical significance as an important addition to the history of Soviet Russian literature of the 1920s–1970s are examined.
Keywords
Fedor Levin; Levin’s archive; ego-documents; The Story of My cosmopolitanism; genre originality of the memoirs
