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Zamyatin's Reception of Wells's Fiction

CLCWeb : Comparative literature and culture, 2017-03, Vol.19 (1), p.1 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

2017. This work is published under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License. ;ISSN: 1481-4374 ;EISSN: 1481-4374 ;DOI: 10.7771/1481-4374.2779

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Title:
Zamyatin's Reception of Wells's Fiction
Author: Khatyamova, Marina ; Aksenova, Natalia
Subjects: 1900-1999 ; Adventure ; Aesthetics ; Agnosticism ; Authorship ; Bibliographic literature ; comparative literature ; criticism ; dystopia ; Dystopias ; English literature ; Exegesis & hermeneutics ; Fiction ; Irony ; Literary characters ; Literary criticism ; Literary devices ; Literary influences ; Literary translation ; Literature ; Logic ; Modernity ; Narrative techniques ; Narratology ; novel ; Novels ; Plot (Narrative) ; Politics ; Russian literature ; science fiction novel ; Short stories ; Social criticism & satire ; socialism ; Source materials ; Technology ; Wells, H. G ; Wells, Herbert ; Writers ; Zamiatin, Evgenii Ivanovich
Is Part Of: CLCWeb : Comparative literature and culture, 2017-03, Vol.19 (1), p.1
Description: In their article "Zamyatin's Reception of Well's Fiction," Natalia Aksenova and Marina Albertovna Khatyamova examine several essays written by Yevgeny Zamyatin on Herbert Wells's texts and analyse Zamyatin's reception of Wells's work. Wells's ironic mindset, plot-driven writings, and attraction to parody drew Zamyatin's attention. Zamyatin felt a rapport with the central role of plot dynamics, unorthodox socialist politics, and dystopian tendencies in Wells's fiction. Discussions of the artistic qualities of Wells's writings allow Zamyatin to expound upon his own aesthetic program, known as "synthetism." In these discussions Zamyatin interprets Wells's work as a complex interpretation of technological modernity where the line between humans and gods is actively blurred, and traces the origins of Wellsian fiction to his predecessors, mostly English-language adventure writers. In doing so, Zamyatin gives Wells credit for extending the typical adventure novel into a philosophical realm while keeping it entertaining and captivating. Furthermore, in terms of the reimagining of the Apollonian and Dionisyan opposition as an opposition between English and Irish in Zamyatin's "English stories" of the same period, Wells is read as a typical Englishman: an unorthodox heretic. Ultimately, it becomes clear that these are the qualities that Zamyatin values most in Wells.
Publisher: Ashland: Purdue University Press
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 1481-4374
EISSN: 1481-4374
DOI: 10.7771/1481-4374.2779
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Zamyatin's Reception of Wells's Fiction

2017. This work is published under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License. ;ISSN: 1481-4374 ;EISSN: 1481-4374 ;DOI: 10.7771/1481-4374.2779

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