Siberia and the Far East in the First Half of the 20th Century as a Space of Literary Transfer

Abstract

Purpose. The article covers the studies on “Siberia and the Far East of the first half of the 20th century as a space of literary transfer”, which have been conducted in the sector of literary studies at the Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 2019 and are underway until now. Results. The aim of the article is to demonstrate the main lines of this work, so we shall list them. First, the study of Siberian and Far-Eastern futurism and Siberian and Far-Eastern periodicals of the 1920s with the selective publication of archival materials (N. Aseev, S. Tretyakov, V. Ryabinin, V. Mart, etc.). Secondly, the reconstruction of forgotten, but valuable for the history of Russian literature creative biographies of poets and novelists of the Eastern branch of the Russian emigration (V. Loginov, N. Peterets, B. Beta, B. Volkov, etc.). Thirdly, a description of the poetics of Far Eastern, Harbin and Shanghai authors, identification in their prose and poetic texts of artistic techniques discussed and developed in literary circles of Harbin and Shanghai (original rhymes, rare strophic and compositional forms, imitations of Eastern genres); identification of primary styles and subtexts for Harbin and Shanghai authors. Fourth, the study of documentary sources, up to the most contemporary, of Russian Harbin and Shanghai and the search for documentary evidence of the literary culture of the Russian China in artistic texts, such as V. Pereleshin's “Poem without Subject”.