მწერალი და ემიგრაცია (ვიქტორ შკლოვსკის „რუსული ბერლინი“)

Abstract

The existence of “Russian Berlin” in the history of the twentieth century emigration is a special phenomenon. In the 1920s after the Russian Civil War, thousands of émigrés fled to Berlin . V.Shklovsky called the Russian émigrés “refugees” with which he stressed the feeling of confusion many émigrés had. Some of them dreamed of returning to their native land but a large majority would have liked to see the collapse of the Bolshevik and anticipated it.” (Андреев, А : 36). Victor Shklovsky (1893-1984) is well-known as literary critic, novelist and leading figure of Russian formalism. Publication Victor Shklovsky’s “Sentimental Journey” - this interesting example of autobiographical prose in Berlin, In 1923, (Publishing house “Gelikon”), was followed by a broad response in émigré periodical press and at the same time it became a rarity. This is a book written step by step of political events which supplies us with interesting material on Russian emigration. Shklovsky describes impressions of the events that he witnessed in 1918-23, his undergraduate activities against Bolsheviks, his creative life at the Petrograd House of Arts-founded by M.Gorky and K.Chukovsky in 1919.