SELF-PORTRAIT DURING THE BATTLE, WITH A PICTURE GALLERY IN THE BACKGROUND (about Fyodor Glinka)

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17072/2037-6681-2018-4-103-117

Keywords:

Fyodor Glinka, self-portrait, Letters of a Russian Officer, genre, epigraphy, ekphrasis.

Abstract

In this paper, we try to show that the magnus opus of Fyodor Glinka, his Letters of a Russian Officer (1809/1815–1816), when analyzed, is liable to add to our understanding of the archaists-innovators debate as formulated by Tynyanov. We approach the Glinka’s book on the genre level, as a combination of letters, journal and travel (military) notes. Our analysis of narrative and stylistic composition of the 8-volume work lays bare the drama of ‘war and peace’ and the collision between two civilizations in which a lot of Slavophile interrogations could be read. This proto-Slavophile position as well as a utopian free-masonic stance assure the ideological and philosophical coherence of the Glinka’s book, whereas its poetic wholeness is assured by an interplay of high, low and median styles, which the writer brilliantly exploits. Our analysis gives an opportunity to observe how the ancient genres of epigraphy and ekphrasis, revived in the 18th century, following the interest for travels and ruins, enter the book’s poetic system, and to note that Glinka treats these genres in a new way, turning away from the Karamzinist model.

Author Biography

Леонид Михайлович Геллер (Leonid M. Heller), University of Lausanne

In this paper, we try to show that the magnus opus of Fyodor Glinka, his Letters of a Russian Officer (1809/1815–1816), when analyzed, is liable to add to our understanding of the archaists-innovators debate as formulated by Tynyanov. We approach the Glinka’s book on the genre level, as a combination of letters, journal and travel (military) notes. Our analysis of narrative and stylistic composition of the 8-volume work lays bare the drama of ‘war and peace’ and the collision between two civilizations in which a lot of Slavophile interrogations could be read. This proto-Slavophile position as well as a utopian free-masonic stance assure the ideological and philosophical coherence of the Glinka’s book, whereas its poetic wholeness is assured by an interplay of high, low and median styles, which the writer brilliantly exploits. Our analysis gives an opportunity to observe how the ancient genres of epigraphy and ekphrasis, revived in the 18th century, following the interest for travels and ruins, enter the book’s poetic system, and to note that Glinka treats these genres in a new way, turning away from the Karamzinist model.

References

Базанов В. Ф. Н. Глинка // Глинка Ф. Избранные произведения. Л.: Сов. писатель, 1957. С. 5–54. (Библиотека поэта, Большая серия).

Глинка Ф. Письма к другу, содержащие в себе замечания, мысли и рассуждения о разных предметах. СПб.: тип. К. Крейя, 1816. T. 1: 176 с.; T. 2: 165 c.; T. 3: 192 c.

Глинка Ф. Н. Письма русского офицера; Зиновий Богдан Хмельницкий, или Освобожденная Малороссия. Киев: Днипро, 1991. 491 с.

Глинка Ф. Письма русского офицера о Польше, Австрийских владениях, Пруссии и Франции, с подробным описанием поход Россиян противу Французов в 1805 и 1806, также отечественной и заграничной войны с 1812 по 1815 год. С присовокуплением, замечаний, мыслей и рассуждений во время поездки в некоторые отечественные губернии. Писаны Федором Глинкой. М.: типогр. Селивановского, 1815–1816. Т. I–VIII. T. 1. 242 с.; T. 2: 224 c.; T. 3: 189 c.; T. 4: 257 c.; T. 5: 246 c.; T. 6: 216 c.; T. 7: 201 с.; T. 8: 292 c.

Глинка Ф. Н. // Энциклопедия Брокгауза и Ефрона. СПб.: Брокгауз-Эфрон, 1890 (Репринт Терра-1991). Т. 16. С. 855.

Дмитриев-Мамонов Ф. (Дворянин Философ). Слава России, или Собрание медалей, означающих дела Петра Великаго и другия некоторыя. М.: [Унив. тип., у Н. Новикова], 1783. 8 с.

Карамзин Н. Письма русского путешественника. Л.: Наука, 1984. 720 с.

Лотман Ю., Успенский Б. «Письма русского путешественника» Карамзина и их место в развитии русской культуры // Карамзин Н. Письма русского путешественника. Л.: Наука, 1984. C. 525–606.

Марахова Т. О жанрах мемуарной литературы // Учен. зап. Горьковского педагогического института. Горький, 1967. Вып. 69. С. 19–30.

Серков С., Удеревский Ю. Писатель, воин, гражданин – Ф. Н. Глинка // Глинка Ф. Письма русского офицера. М.: Моск. рабочий, 1985. C. 5–25.

Сиповский Б. Карамзин – автор «Писем русского путешественника. СПб.: тип. В. Демакова, 1899. VIII. 642 c.

Хомяков А. Избранные сочинения. Нью-Йорк: Изд-во им. Чехова, 1955. 413 c.

Чудакова М. Дневник // Краткая литературная энциклопедия: в 9 т. М.: Сов. энцикл., 1964. Т. 2, стлб. 707–708.

Эйхенбаум Б. Молодой Толстой (1920) // Эйхенбаум Б. О литературе. М.: Сов. писатель, 1987. С. 34–138.

Ватникова-Призэл З. О русской мемуарной литературе: критические анализы и библиография // East Lansing: Russian Language Journal, 1978. 250 с.

Hamburger K. La Logique des genres litté-raires. Paris: Seuil, 1970. 372 p.

Heller L., Niqueux M. Histoire de l’utopie en Russie. Paris, PUF, 1995. 295 p.

Harris J. G. Diversity of Discourse: Autobio-graphical Statements in Theory and Praxis // Autobiographical Statements in Twentieth-Century Russian Literature. Princeton U. P., 1990. P. 3–35.

Lanson G. Histoire de la littérature française. Paris, Hachette, 21 éd. 1916. P. 844–847.

Mandel B. J. Full of Life Now // Autobiography: Essays Theoretical and Critical, J. Olney, ed. Princeton, 1980. P. 49–72.

Schaeffer J.-M. Qu’est-ce qu’un genre littéraire. Paris: Seuil, 1989. 184 p.

Philostrate. La Galerie de tableaux. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1991. 151 p.

References

Bazanov V. F. N. Glinka [F. N. Glinka]. Glin-ka F. Izbrannye Proizvedeniya (Biblioteka Poeta, Bol’shaya Seriya) [Selected Works (Poet’s Library, Big Series)]. Leningrad, Sovetskiy pisatel’ Publ., 1957, pp. 5–54. (In Russ.)

Glinka F. Pis’ma k drugu, soderzhashchie v sebe zamechaniya, mysli i rassuzhdeniya o raznykh predmetakh [Letters to a friend containing remarks, thoughts and arguments about different subjects]. St. Petersburg, Publishing House of K. Kreyya Publ., 1816. Vol. 1. 176 p. Vol. 2. 165 p. Vol. 3. 192 p. (In Russ.)

Glinka F. N. Pis’ma russkogo ofitsera. Zinoviy Bogdan Khmel’nitskiy, ili Osvobozhdennaya Malorossiya [Letters of a Russian officer. Zinovy Bogdan Khmelnitsky, or the liberated Little Russia]. Kiev, Dnipro Publ., 1991. 491 p. (In Russ.)

Glinka F. Pis’ma russkogo ofitsera o Pol’she, Avstriyskikh vladeniyakh, Prussii i Frantsii, s podrobnym opisaniem pokhod Rossiyan protivu Frantsuzov v 1805 i 1806, takzhe otechestvennoy i zagranichnoy voyny s 1812 po 1815 god. S prisovokupleniem, zamechaniy, mysley i rassuzhdeniy vo vremya poezdki v nekotorye otechestvennye gubernii. Pisany Fedorom Glinkoy [Letters of a Russian officer about Poland, Austrian possessions, Prussia and France, with a detailed description of the campaign of the Russians against the French in 1805 and 1806, as well as the domestic and foreign war from 1812 to 1815. With the addition, comments, thoughts and arguments during a trip to some of the domestic provinces. Written by Fyodor Glinka]. Moscow, Publishing House of Selivanovskyy, 1815-1816. Vol. 1. 242 p. Vol. 2. 224 p. Vol. 3. 189 p. Vol. 4. 257 p. Vol. 5. 246 p. Vol. 6. 216 p. Vol. 7. 201 p. Vol. 8. 292 p. (In Russ.)

Glinka F. N. Entsiklopediya Brokgauza i Efrona [Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron]. St. Petersburg, Brokgauz-Efron, 1890 (Reprint Terra-1991), Vol. 16. 855 p. (In Russ.)

Dmitriev-Mamonov F. (Dvoryanin Filosof). Slava Rossii, ili Sobranie medaley, oznachayushchikh dela Petra Velikago i drugiya nekotoryya [Glory to Russia, or a collection of medals meaning the deeds of Peter the Great and some others]. Moscow, N. Novikov’s Publishing House, 1783. 8 p. (In Russ.)

Karamzin N. Pis’ma russkogo puteshestvennika [Letters of a Russian traveler]. Leningrad, Nauka Publ., 1984, 720 p. (In Russ.)

Lotman Yu., Uspenskiy B. «Pis’ma russkogo puteshestvennika» Karamzina i ikh mesto v razvitii russkoy kul’tury [‘Letters of a Russian traveler’ by Karamzin and their place in the development of Russian culture]. Karamzin N. Pis’ma russkogo puteshestvennika [Karamzin N. Letters of a Russian traveler]. Leningrad, Nauka Publ., 1984, pp. 525–606. (In Russ.)

Marakhova T. O zhanrakh memuarnoy literatury [On the genres of memoir literature]. Uchenye zapiski Gor’kovskogo pedagogicheskogo instituta [Scientific notes of the Gorky Pedagogical Institute]. Gorky, 1967, issue 69, pp. 19–30. (In Russ.)

Serkov S., Uderevskiy Yu. Pisatel’, voin, grazhdanin – F. N. Glinka [Writer, warrior, citizen – F. N. Glinka]. Glinka F. Pis’ma russkogo ofitsera [Letters of a Russian officer]. Moscow, Moskovskiy rabochiy Publ., 1985, pp. 5–25. (In Russ.)

Sipovskiy B. Karamzin – avtor «Pisem russkogo puteshestvennika» [Karamzin – the author of “Letters of the Russian traveler”]. St. Petersburg, Publishing House of V. Demakov, 1899. VIII, 642 p. (In Russ.)

Khomyakov A. Izbrannye sochineniya [Selected Works]. New York, Chekhov Publishing House, 1955. 413 p. (In Russ.)

Chudakova M. Dnevnik [Diary]. Kratkaya literaturnaya entsiklopediya [The Concise Literary Encyclopedia]. Moscow, 1964, vol. 2, pp. 707–708. (In Russ.)

Eikhenbaum B. Molodoy Tolstoy (1920) [Young Tolstoy (1920)]. Eykhenbaum B. O literature [Eikhenbaum B. On literature]. Moscow, 1987, pp. 34–138 (In Russ.)

Vatnikova-Prizel Z. O russkoy memuarnoy literature: kriticheskiye analizy i bibliografiya [On Russian memoir literature: critical analysis and bibliography]. East Lansing, Russian Language Journal Publ., 1978. 250 p. (In Russ.)

Hamburger K. La Logique des genres littéraires. Paris, Seuil, 1970. 372 p. (In Fr.)

Heller L., Niqueux M. Histoire de l’utopie en Russie. Paris, PUF, 1995. 295 p. (In Fr.)

Harris J. G. Diversity of Discourse: Autobiographical Statements in Theory and Praxis. Autobiographical Statements in Twentieth-Century Russian Literature. Princeton U. P., 1990, pp. 3–35. (In Eng.)

Lanson G. Histoire de la littérature française. Paris, Hachette, 21-e éd. 1916, pp. 844–847. (In Fr.)

Mandel B. J. Full of Life Now. Autobiography: Essays Theoretical and Critical, J. Olney, ed. Princeton, 1980, pp. 49–72. (In Eng.)

Schaeffer J.-M. Qu’est-ce qu’un genre littéraire. Paris, Seuil, 1989. 184 p. (In Fr.)

Philostrate. La Galerie de tableaux. Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 1991. 151 p. (In Fr.)

Published

2018-12-24

How to Cite

Геллер (Leonid M. Heller) Л. М. (2018). SELF-PORTRAIT DURING THE BATTLE, WITH A PICTURE GALLERY IN THE BACKGROUND (about Fyodor Glinka). Perm University Herald. Russian and Foreign Philology, 10(4). https://doi.org/10.17072/2037-6681-2018-4-103-117

Issue

Section

LITERATURE IN THE CONTEXT OF CULTURE