Artistic Study of a Personality in the Book by Nina Berberova «Tchaikovsky. The Story of a Lonely Life»

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DOI 10.18522/1995-0640-2021-3-123-130

The article examines the means to study the creative personality in Nina Berberova’s book “Tchaikovsky. The Story of a Lonely Life”. Nina Berberova is one of the outstanding representatives of the first wave of Russian emigration literature. The author resorts to such diverse means of creating Tchaikovsky’s image as portrait characteristics, which, according to the authors of the article, is not devoid of a psychological component; creative legacy as a defining moment in the life of the hero; memories of contemporaries; historical and cultural context, etc. Having analyzed the work, the authors draw the conclusion that Nina Berberova managed to create a holistic image of the great composer, using a wide range of documentary legacy and comprehending the doctrines of her contemporary times.

Key words: Russian abroad, creative personality, artistic biography, prospectus, retrospection, psychoanalysis.

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  • Anna V. Dmitrova , Southern Federal University

    PhD of Philology, associate professor. Institute of Philology, Journalism and Cross-cultural Communication, Southern Federal University. Head of the SFedU Lyceum. Rostov-on-Don, Russian Federation

  • Tatyana O. Osipova , Southern Federal University

    PhD of Philology, associate professor of the Department of Russian Literature at the Institute of Philology, Journalism and Cross-cultural Communication of the Southern Federal University. Rostov-on-Don, Russian Federation

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Published

2021-09-28

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Vol. 25 No. 3 (2021)

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LITERATURE STUDY

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Artistic Study of a Personality in the Book by Nina Berberova «Tchaikovsky. The Story of a Lonely Life». (2021). Proceedings of Southern Federal University. Philology, 25(3), 123-130. https://philol-journal.sfedu.ru/index.php/sfuphilol/article/view/1648

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