Nikolai I. Nikolaev, Principal Librarian of the Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts of M. Gorky Scientific Library, Saint Petersburg State University, University Embankment, 7/9, 119034, St. Petersburg, Russia. E-mail: n.nikolaew@spbu.ru
The article addresses the views of Lev Vasil’evich Pumpyanskii (1891–1940), the prominent philologist and thinker, the friend and colleague of M.M. Bakhtin, on the artistic method of G. Flaubert. L.V. Pumpyanskii in his work "Turgenev and Flaubert" (1930) as well as in his unpublished book "Literature of Modern West and Amerika: 1920–1929" (1930) and unpublished note (1928) about K.A. Fedin’s novel "The Brothers" describes the artistic method of G. Flaubert as artisticism. For L.V. Pumpyanskii artisticism means the existence of strict creative distance, orientation on someone else’s word, stylization, particular objective world, and evocative method of description. According to L.V. Pumpyanskii Flaubert’s artisticism formed a whole epoch in the history of European literature and had a great influence on Pumpyanskii’s highly estimated Henry James and Thomas Mann.
theory of prose; stylization; inner speech; objective world; evocative method; artistic novel.
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Nikolaev, N.I., “Lev V. Pumpyanskii on Gustave Flaubert”. Literaturovedcheskii zhurnal, no. 3(53), 2021, pp. 120–130. (In Russ.) DOI: 10.31249/litzhur/2021.53.08
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