Chapter 7: Blokha and Folk Theatre
Philip Cavendish
From Mining for Jewels: Evgenii Zamiatin and the Literary Stylization of Rus' (2000), pp. 203-42, doi:10.59860/td.c598a73
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| Part of the book: Mining for Jewels Philip Cavendish MHRA Texts and Dissertations 51 Maney Publishing for the Modern Humanities Research Association Abstract. Zamiatin's carnivalesque predisposition was illustrated by a number of laughter texts in the post-revolutionary period, some of them satirical, some of them merely jocular. The four Theta tales, possibly the first attempt to lampoon the Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin in literature, were published in October and November 1917 in Delo naroda. These were followed shortly afterwards by 'Tulumbas', Zamiatin's response to Remizov's Obezvelvolpal manifesto; the coded 'history' of the World of Literature publishing venture; the Panoptikum section of the journal Russkii sovremennik, penned by Zamiatin himself and his co-editor Kornei Chukovskii; and the 'epitaphs' and greetings delivered at various gatherings of writers and satirical societies. As we have seen in the previous chapter, the playful impiety of the hagiographic parodies had their analogy in the anarchic, sometimes obscene, and anticlerical antics for which itinerant players acquired their reputation in pre-Petrine Russia. Full text. This contribution is published as Open Access and can be downloaded as a PDF, or viewed as a PDF in your web browser, here: |
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