Bitsilli and Discussions about Russian Language in Exile

PDF

https://doi.org/10.22455/Emigr.3034-3518-2024-2-419-430

https://elibrary.ru/VREAPD

Abstract: The article is dedicated to a dispute about the “corruption” of the Russian language which flared up on the pages of the Parisian magazine “Zveno” in the 1927–1928. The main opponents in the discussion were Piotr Bitsilli and prince Sergei Volkonskii. Bitsilli looks at any language, including Russian, as an object of cultural philosophy. Volkonskii’s approach is purely political: he sees in Russian the expression of the spirit of old Russia.

Keywords: Piotr Bitsilli, prince Sergei Volkonskii, spelling reform, old Russian spelling, philosophy of culture.

Information about author: Michela Venditti, DSc in Philology, Associate Professor, Department of Literary, Linguistic and Comparative Studies, Naples University L’Orientale, via Duomo 219, 80138 Naples, Italy.

For citation: Venditti, Michela. “Piotr Bitsilli and Discussions about Russian Language in Exile.” 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. 419–430. (In Russian) https://doi.org/10.22455/Emigr.3034-3518-2024-2-419-430

REFERENCES

  1. Annenkova,I.V. Neizgnannaia mysl’: Filologiia P.M. Bitsilli [Unexiled Thought: P.M. Bitsilli’s Philology]. Moscow, Lomonosov Moscow State University Publ., 2011. 148 p. (In Russian)
  2. Venditti, M. “Vopros o reforme orfografii v emigratsii (N.K. Kul’man iF.A. Braun)” [“Question of Orthographic Reform in Exile (N.K. Kul’man i F.A. Braun)”]. Ezhegodnik Doma russkogo zarubezh’ia imeni Aleksandra Solzhenitsyna, 2014–2015 [Yearbook of Alexander Solzhenitsyn Center for Studies of Russia Abroad, 2014–2015]. Moscow, Alexander Solzhenitsyn Center for Studies ofRussia Abroad Publ., 2015, pp. 716–722. (In Russian)
  3. Uspensky, B.A. Izbrannye trudy [Selected Works], in 2 vol. Vol. 1. Semiotika istorii. Semiotika kul’tury [Semiotics of History. Semiotics of Culture]. Moscow, Gnozis Publ., 1994. 429 p. (In Russian)
  4. Schruba,M. Slovar’ psevdonimov russkogo zarubezh’ia v Evrope (1917–1945) [Dictionary of Pseudonyms of Russia Abroad in Europe (1917–1945)], ed. by O.A. Korostelev. Moscow, Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie Publ., 2018. 1064 p. (In Russian)

Received: 30 July 2021
Approved after reviewing: June 10, 2022
Date of publication: December 26, 2024

Current Issue

emi cover 3