Sasha Sokolov: The Life and Work of the Russian “Proet” / / Martina Napolitano, Reinhard Ibler

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910964672103321
• Autore: Napolitano Martina
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hannover, : ibidem, 2022
• ISBN: 3-8382-7619-1
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (163 pages)
• Collana: Literatur und Kultur im mittleren und östlichen Europa ; 22
• Disciplina: 891.7344
• Soggetti: Novels; Russian Literature; Russian Poetics; Russische Dichtung; Russische Literatur; Sasha Sokolov
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Masquerade, or "Maintain your reputation!" -- The son of the nomenklatura -- An asocial profile in the Moscow underground scene -- Fleeing the city -- Getting ready to leave -- A stopover in Vienna -- A North-American nomad -- Sasha Sokolov, the lecturer -- Soviet Union, toccata and fugue -- "An eternal student of the globetrotting department" -- Chapter 2. On Early Trains, or Beyond Sasha Sokolov's Twilight Cosmos -- Emotional proximity -- Classification difficulty -- Close reading attempts -- Sasha Sokolov's baroqueness -- Chapter 3. Pictures from an Exhibition -- A language to compose texts -- A sound architecture -- Triptych's music -- Voices on stage -- Triptych's "theatre of pure reason" -- Chapter 4. Theory and Play of Proeziia -- A long proetic tradition -- A choice of awareness -- A baroque macro-genre -- In Lieu of a Conclusion -- References.
• Sommario/riassunto: Martina Napolitano explores the poetics of one of the most significant Russian authors of the 20th century. Sasha Sokolov’s oeuvre represents a milestone in the development of Russian literature; his legacy can be traced in most prose and poetry appearing in post-Soviet Russia. ; Taking as point of departure the studies and analyses written so far and considering the new suggestions contained in Sokolov’s last published book Triptych (2011), Napolitano further examines the keystones and the theoretical framework that arise from a close reading of Sokolov’s works, trying to systematize the findings into what can be considered as a structured authorial theory of literary creation. The study demonstrates how Sokolov’s oeuvre cannot be fully understood but within the widened perspective of inter-artistic creation: in fact, the writer, a “failed composer”, as he admits, in his literary work has tried to draw natural and spontaneous connecting lines between the artificially categorized realms of art (word, sound, painting, performance). Finally, the book sets forth the first solid analysis of Sokolov’s concept of proeziia, not merely a genre nor style of his own invention, but a more significant theoretical reflection of the writer about the role and value of literature, art, creation, and finally beauty.