О. Уайльд и Россия: проблемы поэтики и рецепции

Abstract

Collection of articles “O. Wilde and Russia: Problems of Poetics and Reception” is a collective work of researchers of the creativity of the English writer, who set out to look at his legacy taking into account the latest data on his biography, literary and cultural ties. The central scientific problem of this book is the writer’s attitude to Russia, its literature, philosophical and socio-political thought, as well as the ways and contexts of understanding his work in the Russian Empire, the USSR and post-Soviet Russia. Analysis of this bidirectional reception allows us to conclude that Wilde has learned much more from Russian culture than it was previously thought. On the other hand, for more than a hundred years the writer’s artistic world, his aesthetic and philosophical ideas have been correlated with the most important and urgent problems in Russian literature, history and social thought. Through the admiration and creation of a biographical myth, through the borrowing of images, motifs, stylistics and specific literary techniques, despite the controversy, denial, censure and oblivion, thanks to the rediscovery and re-reading of his works the process of cultural enrichment and development has always been going on.