Two Anatolys and One “Angelica”: On the History of the “Southwestern Literary School”

The subject of the paper is the cultural life of Odessa in the 1910s, and the reconstruction of Anatoly Gamma’s biography, who was 21 when he died in the fall of 1918. His creative life was very short, and appeared to be almost a literary hoax. However, Gamma’s poetry reflected a radical change in t...

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Autores principales: Alena L. Yavorskaya, Andrei B. Ustinov
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Publicado: Russian Academy of Sciences. A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature 2021
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:21a1ae2afd4f4071ae90ede7ecfe2af02021-11-24T15:36:02ZTwo Anatolys and One “Angelica”: On the History of the “Southwestern Literary School”10.22455/2541-8297-2021-20-280-3132541-82972542-2421https://doaj.org/article/21a1ae2afd4f4071ae90ede7ecfe2af02021-06-01T00:00:00Zhttp://litfact.ru/images/2021-20/13_Yavorskaya_Ustinov.pdfhttps://doaj.org/toc/2541-8297https://doaj.org/toc/2542-2421The subject of the paper is the cultural life of Odessa in the 1910s, and the reconstruction of Anatoly Gamma’s biography, who was 21 when he died in the fall of 1918. His creative life was very short, and appeared to be almost a literary hoax. However, Gamma’s poetry reflected a radical change in the artistic paradigm after the Revolution of 1917. Here the authors reprint all the existing Gamma’s poems published in 1917–18 in the Odessa periodicals. After the tragic death of another Odessa poet Anatoly Fioletov at the age of 21, Gamma’s name happened to appear in obituaries dedicated to both poets. One of those memorial articles entitled “On Two Anatolys (Anatoly Gamma, Anatoly Fioletov)” was published in the Kharkov magazine “Muses” under the nom de plume “Angelica d’Éspré,” which the authors decipher in this essay. Most importantly, being associated with Anatoly Fioletov, Eduard Bagritsky and other Odessa poets, Gamma became a part of a cultural phenomenon that was called by Viktor Shklovsky in 1932 the “Southwestern Literary School.”Alena L. YavorskayaAndrei B. UstinovRussian Academy of Sciences. A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literaturearticleliterary odessarussian futurismpost-revolutionary culturea. gammaa. fioletove. bagritskyv. mayakovskym. semenkov. shklovskysouthwestern literary schoolLiterature (General)PN1-6790Slavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languagesPG1-9665ENRUЛитературный факт, Iss 2 (20), Pp 280-313 (2021)
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RU
topic literary odessa
russian futurism
post-revolutionary culture
a. gamma
a. fioletov
e. bagritsky
v. mayakovsky
m. semenko
v. shklovsky
southwestern literary school
Literature (General)
PN1-6790
Slavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languages
PG1-9665
spellingShingle literary odessa
russian futurism
post-revolutionary culture
a. gamma
a. fioletov
e. bagritsky
v. mayakovsky
m. semenko
v. shklovsky
southwestern literary school
Literature (General)
PN1-6790
Slavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languages
PG1-9665
Alena L. Yavorskaya
Andrei B. Ustinov
Two Anatolys and One “Angelica”: On the History of the “Southwestern Literary School”
description The subject of the paper is the cultural life of Odessa in the 1910s, and the reconstruction of Anatoly Gamma’s biography, who was 21 when he died in the fall of 1918. His creative life was very short, and appeared to be almost a literary hoax. However, Gamma’s poetry reflected a radical change in the artistic paradigm after the Revolution of 1917. Here the authors reprint all the existing Gamma’s poems published in 1917–18 in the Odessa periodicals. After the tragic death of another Odessa poet Anatoly Fioletov at the age of 21, Gamma’s name happened to appear in obituaries dedicated to both poets. One of those memorial articles entitled “On Two Anatolys (Anatoly Gamma, Anatoly Fioletov)” was published in the Kharkov magazine “Muses” under the nom de plume “Angelica d’Éspré,” which the authors decipher in this essay. Most importantly, being associated with Anatoly Fioletov, Eduard Bagritsky and other Odessa poets, Gamma became a part of a cultural phenomenon that was called by Viktor Shklovsky in 1932 the “Southwestern Literary School.”
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title Two Anatolys and One “Angelica”: On the History of the “Southwestern Literary School”
title_short Two Anatolys and One “Angelica”: On the History of the “Southwestern Literary School”
title_full Two Anatolys and One “Angelica”: On the History of the “Southwestern Literary School”
title_fullStr Two Anatolys and One “Angelica”: On the History of the “Southwestern Literary School”
title_full_unstemmed Two Anatolys and One “Angelica”: On the History of the “Southwestern Literary School”
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