Abstract
Literary Voyage around an “ Imaginary Continent ” : From Russia to Argentina – and back. Russia through the prism of “ Literature ” : The narrator of Edgardo Cozarinsky’s significantly entitled story characterizes his personal Russia as a – thoroughly (inter) textualized – “ imaginary continent ”. This article , based on a corpus of Argentine and Russian texts (with particular focus on the works of Alberto Gerchunoff, Abrasha Rotenberg, Edgardo Cozarinsky, Ricardo Feierstein , and Vladimir Kantor), explores various literary representations of this “ imaginary continent ”, the presence of Russian history, language and culture in the writings of RussianJewish immigrants to Argentina and their descendants , from the beginning of the 20th century up to the present day. From a peripheral point of view, these texts , intertwining great history and family chronicles, literary reminiscences and political considerations, create a complex image of a palimpsestic Russia . Confronting different Russian / Soviet visions of Argentina and Argentine perspectives on Russia and the Soviet Union, they illustrate the evolution of the respective auto and heteroimages in changing historical contexts, as well as the crucial role of literature in this intercultural dynamics.
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