Journey through the artistic world of E.I. Zamyatin

Zamiatinskaia entsiklopediia / T.T. Davydova. Moskva: Flinta, 2018. 741 s. ISBN 978-5-9765-3810-8

https://doi.org/10.20339/PhS.5-19.108     

Sushilina Irina K.,

Candidate of Philology, Associate Professor at

Higher School of Printing and Media Industry

Moscow Polytechnic University

e-mail: ir.k.s@yandex.ru

Grigoryev Nikolay Yu.,

Candidate of Philology, Associate Professor at

Moscow State Humanitarian the University of Economics

e-mail: rawcare@yandex.ru

This review describes the first “Zamyatin Encyclopaedia”, created by a well-known expert, Doctor of Philology, Professor T. Davydova. This literary encyclopaedia is a result of the author’s many years work. The Encyclopaedia is based on the wide academic literature devoted to Zamyatin, archives and epistolary heritage. The publication gives a complete and scientifically objective view on Zamyatin’s books, his biography, esthetical researches and his place in the literary process.

Keywords: personal literary encyclopaedia, author's, vocabulary, structure, context, literary process, epistolary heritage, type, neorealism, motives.