Osip Mandel始拧tam and the Grand Lie of Stalinism
- 作者：Dagmar Burkhart
- 关键词：Mandel始shtam ; Stalinism
- 刊名：Russian Literature
- 出版年：2012
- 期刊代码：23_03043479
- 类别：art
- 出版时间：1 January, 2012
- 卷：71
- 期：1
- 页码：53-74
- 文件大小：376 K
摘要
The Grand Lie, immanent to the totalitarian system of the Soviet Union - the betrayal of Utopian ideals, revaluation of all values, de-humanization of politics, omnipresence of political coercion, mendacious propaganda - is the subject matter of some largely cryptographic poems in the Moscow Notebooks (1930-1934) by Osip Mandel始shtam, whose life was shattered by Stalinism and came to an end in a transit camp near Vladivostok in 1938. His poetic structure takes, among other devices, signalments of folk mythology and tropes to veil the direct statement: metonyms, metaphors and personification (e.g. the figure of 鈥淯ntruth/Nepravda鈥?. In addition, with the aid of allusions and an elaborate anagram technique, he introduces into his work the tabooed name of Stalin, the main representative of the sham fa莽ade of Soviet society.