Stalin’s Statue Protagonism in the Novel Monumental Propaganda

Authors

  • Denise Regina Sales Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.27.3.193-205

Keywords:

Russian literature, Vladimir Voinovich, sculpture, Roman Jakobson, Alexandre Pushkin

Abstract

In Russian literary studies, the interface between literature and sculpture has a central text entitled “The Statue in the Pushkin’s Poetic Mythology”, written by Roman Jakobson, for whom the statue is one of the most impressive images in Pushkin’s oeuvre. Based on Jakobson’s considerations on Pushkin’s work, this article aims to investigate the statue as “object of narrative” and “subject of action” in the satiric novel Monumental Propaganda, written by Vladimir Voinovich and published in 2000. In this novel Stálin’s sculpture, built to celebrate his 70th birthday, plays the main role and represents a father and a son to Aglaia Stepanovna, the heroine.

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Author Biography

Denise Regina Sales, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS

Professora de língua e literatura russas no Departamento de Letras Modernas da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

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Published

2017-12-29

How to Cite

Sales, D. R. (2017). Stalin’s Statue Protagonism in the Novel Monumental Propaganda. Aletria: Revista De Estudos De Literatura, 27(3), 193–205. https://doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.27.3.193-205

Issue

Vol. 27 No. 3 (2017): Atualidade da Crítica e da Teoria das Literaturas de Expressão Francesa

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Varia

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