Abstract
ABSTRACT This article revisits the sources that Nikolaj Leskov used for “The Tale of Cross-eyed Lefty from Tula and the Steel Flea.” The research of the historical context for the creation of “Lefty” and of some previously unaccounted-for pretexts and sources allows us to assert that behind Leskov’s stylization and imitation of the oral speech of an ingenuous narrator lies a stinging parody of Russian propaganda literature of the 1850s–1870s. Leskov focuses on the representation of folk speech in this literature by the literary elite.
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