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DOI: 10.46698/VNC.2021.79.40.007 COMPASS INSIDE US BY PETER JILEMNICKÝ: CREATIVE HISTORY, GENRE PECULIARITY, ETHNO-HISTORICAL MATERIAL, AND IDEOLOGICAL TRENDS
Pukish, Vladimir S. , Khugaev, Irlan S.
Izvestia SOIGSI. 2021. IIS 40 (79).
Abstract:
The article examines the novel Kompas v nás (Compass Inside Us) by Peter Jilemnický (1901–1949), the founder of “revolutionary proletarian Slovak literature,” and “the Slovak Gorki.” The topicality of this review can be proved by the fact that the novel devotes much attention to the Soviet (Russian, Kyrgyz) and the Caucasian (Ossetian – in the space-time going beyond the Soviet period) themes – however, by now it has not been translated into Russian and thus it has remained mostly out of the eye of contemporary Russian literary criticism. At the same time, the Ossetia-related chapters of the novel translated into Ossetian by Khasan Maliev and Safar Khabliev, were published in the North Ossetian press, and due to the fact that one of the central characters of the novel is Chermen Bedzhyzaty (1898–1937), a known Ossetian writer and a friend of Peter Jilemnický, and that the foreground of the story takes place in South Ossetia visited by the narrator, Compass Inside Us has more than once been mentioned by Ossetian literary critics. One of the authors of this article (V. Pukish) recently translated the ‘Ossetian’ part of the novel from Slovak into Russian (I. Khugaev edited the translated text as required by the ehtnocultural texture); this is why, the circumstances of creative history of the novel, its main ideas and images, and the assessments given to it by Slovak literary critics are hereby introduced into the scientific discourse in addition to the required biographical and bibliographical references. Based on the original text of the novel, the authors of this article are for the first time discussing the architectonics, imagery, ideology, general representational devices, and ideological and emotional trends of the text by Peter Jilemnický.
Keywords: Peter Jilemnický, Chermen Bedzhyzaty, novel, short story, composition, socialist realism, Caucasus, Ossetia, Czechia, Slovakia, Kyrgyzstan, Interhelpo, happiness, freedom, labour
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