Piotr Bitsilli as a Gogol Scholar

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https://doi.org/10.22455/Emigr.3034-3518-2024-2-431-443

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Abstract: The literary activity of Piotr M. Bitsilli is considered as a constant attempt to establish a connection between a writer’s personality and the horizons that his work opens up to other authors — contemporaries or descendants. This approach greatly expands the panorama of research and gives it a cultural and historical depth, which is at the same time devoid of ideological dominance. The similarity between authors is everywhere corrected by their fundamental differences: the likeness of their individual literary technique cannot be described alone without a discussion of the classic’s spiritual strivings that lie beyond his artistic empiricism. From this point of view I interpret Bitsilli’s observations on Gogol and some other Russian writers.

Кeywords: Piotr M. Bitsilli, Nikolai V. Gogol, inner form, individualism, Eurasianism, harmony, idea and complex, dolls.

Information about author: Michael Y. Weisskopf, PhD, Independent Researcher, Jerusalem, Israel.

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-0187-479X

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For citation: Weisskopf, M.Y. “Bitsilli as a Gogol Scholar.” Emigrantica. Issue 2: Piotr M. Bitsilli and the Humanities of the Russia Abroad, comp. M.A. Vasilieva, sci. ed. M.A. Vasilieva and A.V. Bakuntsev, ed. M.S. Shchavlinskii, D.V. Zaitsev. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2024, pp. 431–443. (In Russian) https://doi.org/10.22455/Emigr.3034-3518-2024-2-431-443

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