2012/2013

2014/2015

DM270

L-LIN/21 (SLAVIC STUDIES)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

MODERN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES

LINGUISTICO-FILOLOGICO-LETTERARIO

3°

2nd semester (23/02/2015 - 30/05/2015)

9

54 lesson hours

ITALIAN AND RUSSIAN

ORAL TEST

BRAGONE MARIA CRISTINA (titolare) - 9 ECTS

To have passed the exams of Russian language 2 and Russian literature 2

The course aims to give an outline of the development and of the peculiar role played by Russian literature in the Twentieth-century Russian society. Reading of literary works belonging to the most important writers of this period supplements the historical and literary outline.

Nature and landscape in Russian poetry between '800 and '900 centuries.

Lectures

Bibliography
A.Puskin, K morju, Fontanu Bachcisarajskogo dvorca, Na cholmach Gruzii lezit nocnaja mgla, Kavkaz, Obval, Monastyr' na Kazbeke, Zimnij vecer, Zimnee utro, Zimnjaja doroga
M. Lermontov, Kogda volnuetsja zeltejuscaja niva, Kavkazu, Utro na Kavkaze, Na severe dikom, Utes, Parus, Tri pal'my
F. Tjutcev, Vecer, Vesennjaja groza, Letnij vecer, Utro v gorach, Polden', Vesennie vody, Carodejkoju zimoju, Osennej pozdneju poroju
A. Fet, Step' vecerom, Vecer, Esce vesny dusistoj nega, Morskaja dal' vo mgle tumannoj, Vecer, Burja na nebe vecerom, Osen'
A. Blok, Veter prines izdaleka, Prozracnye, nevedomye teni
M. Kuzmin, Fudzij v bljudecke
B. Pasternak, Ural vpervye, Sosny, Inej, Kogda razguljajetsja
M. Volosin, Polden', Nad zybkoj rjab'ju vod vstali iz glubiny
N. Gumilev, Ziraf, Ozero Cad
V. Chlebnikov, Kogda nad polem zeleneet, Usad'ba noc'ju, cingischan!
S. Esenin, Goj ty Rus', moja rodnaja, V tom kraju, gde zeltaja krapiva, Ja snova zdes', v sem'e rodnoj
(www.lib.ru e feb-web.ru)
M. Gor'kij, La madre
A. Belyj, Pietroburgo
I. Babel', L'armata a cavallo
Il'f e Petrov, Le dodici sedie or M. Zoscenko, scelta di racconti (Racconti sentimentali or Le api e gli uomini)
E. Zamjatin, Noi
M. Bulgakov, Il maestro e Margherita
A. Solzenicyn, Una giornata di Ivan Denisovic
Ju. Trifonov, La casa sul lungofiume
V. Suskin, Il viburno rosso or V. Rasputin, Il villaggio sommerso
V. Erofeev, Mosca-Petuski
I. Brodskij, Fuga da Bisanzio
S. Dovlatov, La valigia or Compromesso or La straniera
Critical works
History:
N. Riasanovsky, Storia della Russia, Milano, pp. 453-461, 464-587 or
R. Bartlett, Storia della Russia, Mondadori, Milano 2007, p. 168-298or
*P. Bushkovitch, Breve storia della Russia. Dalle origini a Putin, Torino, 2013, p. 315-385, 405-475, 495-531

Literature:
Course notes
Letteratura russa. Sintesi, a cura di S. de Vidovich, Vallardi, Milano 2003, p. 170-275
This is a basic handbook. As regards the most important movements and writers, it is recommended to supplement with:
Storia della civiltà letteraria russa, diretta da Michele Colucci e Riccardo Picchio, vol. 2 Il Novecento, UTET, Torino 1997 or
Storia della letteratura russa. III. Il Novecento, diretta da E. Etkind, G. Nivat, I. Serman e V. Strada, vol. 1-3, Einaudi, Torino 1989 or
G. Carpi, Storia della letteratura russa. Da Pietro il Grande alla rivoluzione d’Ottobre, Carocci, Roma 2010, pp. 577-702 (period from the end of XIX century to the avant-garde, the Acmeism and Cvetaeva).
Students who do not attend the lectures are invited to contact the lecturer for supplementary bibliography.
Materials and books included in the bibliography are available in the Department of Humanistic Studies, Section of Foreign Languages and Literatures.

Oral exam

Oral exam