This contribution is about the peculiarities of the “myth about Pushkin” in Greek-speaking culture. In the first part, we describe the fieldwork research where we investigate what contemporary Greeks know about Pushkin. Then, we observe the most eminent translators and basic stages of the formation of the Greek “myth about Pushkin”, along with the analysis of the translating strategies and the way of narrating of Pushkin’s biography. We analyze the earliest stage of this process in the Greek-speaking culture as an illustration of Greek Pushkin studies. As a result, we think that the main problem here are the specific features of the “Pushkin’s text” and propose a concept that the uniqueness of Greek Pushkin originates from the unique Greek-Russian relations of the 2nd half (especially the last third) of the 19th century. They raised interest of Greek diaspora in the south of Russia towards Pushkin’s works, on the one hand, and the intention to combine “Russian Pushkin” and Greek “Great Idea”, on the other.
Translated title of the contribution“Their-our Pushkin”: from the history of Greek Pushkin studies
Original languageRussian
Pages (from-to)222–273
Number of pages52
JournalИндоевропейское языкознание и классическая филология
VolumeXXVIII
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2024

    Research areas

  • Greek-Russian cultural connections, Pushkin, Pushkin studies in Greek, the “myth about Pushkin”, translation of the literature

    Scopus subject areas

  • Language and Linguistics
  • Literature and Literary Theory

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