In the poetic legacy of Vladimir Vysockij, feelings of nostalgia are expressed in diverse ways, conveying various shades of boredom, longing, and melancholy. A special role is played in Vysockij's oeuvre by the so-called “longing for a heroic era”, which is sometimes expressed explicitly, but more often found in the implicit representation of “longing for a heroic deed”. Vysockij's conception of the heroic deed or feat (podvig) casts this as a moral and spiritual state that contrasts sharply with the surrounding world and with everyday life. While Vysockian "longing for a heroic deed" can be associated with specific geographic contexts (including mountains, the taiga, glaciers in the North), this articles argues that it was the peculiar chronotope of the Great Patriotic War that served as the quintessential context for the heroic feat in Vysockij's universe.
University of Genoa, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-1926-6015
Titolo del capitolo
Regret for the Time of Heroes and Existential Toska in Vladimir Vysockij
Autori
Mario Alessandro Curletto
Lingua
English
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6655-822-4.05
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Anno di pubblicazione
2015
Copyright
© 2015 Author(s)
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Licenza dei metadati
Titolo del libro
Melancholic Identities, Toska and Reflective Nostalgia
Sottotitolo del libro
Case Studies from Russian and Russian-Jewish Culture
Curatori
Sara Dickinson, Laura Salmon
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
194
Anno di pubblicazione
2015
Copyright
© 2015 Author(s)
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Licenza dei metadati
Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6655-822-4
ISBN Print
978-88-6655-821-7
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-6655-822-4
eISBN (xml)
978-88-9273-384-8
Collana
Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici
ISSN della collana
2612-7687
e-ISSN della collana
2612-7679