Tajne notatki z lat 1836-1837 Aleksandra Puszkina jako postmodernistyczna mistyfikacja

• Authors: Ojcewicz Grzegorz

Title variants

EN

Aleksandr Pushkin’s „Secrets Notes from 1836-1837" as a postmodernist hoax

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The article is an attempt to demystify Secret Notes from 1836-1837, which were published by Mikhail Armalinski in the United States in 1986 as an authentic text by Aleksandr Pushkin. There are a number of argument in favour of the diaries having been fabricated and intellectual fraud committed, with the most important being: 1. Secret Notes from 1836-1837 are not on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum; 2. the hoax-author thinks in terms of a person educated in the 20th century, rather than in the 19th one; 3. descriptions of sexual behaviour bear resemblance to contemporary style of a pornographic production; 4. there is too much narrator’s distance from himself and depicted events in the analysed work; 5. the structure of Secret Notes ...shows classical creative behaviours, including the hoaxer’s attachment to definite leitmotifs.

Keywords

EN

Aleksandr Pushkin; Mikhail Armalinski; postmodemism; hoax

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie
• Journal: Acta Polono-Ruthenica
• Year: 2008
• Volume: Tom 1 Nr XIII
• Pages: 111-121

Dates

published

2008-12-01

Contributors

author

Ojcewicz Grzegorz

• Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie

Identifiers

ISSN

1427-549X