Article
O "Amor Brasileiro" de Vsiévolod Ivanov
RUS: Revista de Literatura e Cultura Russa
(2020)
Abstract
In 1926, Vsevolod Ivanov, a pioneering Soviet writer canonized on the pages of the legendary journal Krasnaia Nov, published a short story entitled “A Brazilian Love” in the illustrated magazine 30 Dnei. There is no evidence that Ivanov ever visited Brazil, suggesting that the representation of the country in the short story is founded on second-hand information; on the other hand, not only does Ivanov produce a stereotype of a distant and exotic culture in “A Brazilian Love,” but he also transposes onto that world a lingering hesitation regarding the Soviet reality, generating a kind of cultural translation of the uncertainties of the Bolshevik project into a mythical
Amazon Forest literally inhabited by Russian émigrés.
Keywords
- Vsevolod Ivanov,
- Cultural Translation,
- Ornamentalism,
- Soviet Literature
Disciplines
Publication Date
December 18, 2020
DOI
https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-4765.rus.2020.174738
Citation Information
Cassio de Oliveira. "O "Amor Brasileiro" de Vsiévolod Ivanov" RUS: Revista de Literatura e Cultura Russa Vol. 11 Iss. 17 (2020) p. 150 - 165 ISSN: 2317-4765 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/cassio-deoliveira/19/
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