Article

Name: “War and Peace” as Dmitry Minaev’s and Mikhail Znamensky’s Pastiche: Cartoons and Parodies in the Satirical Weeklies

Authors: Alexey E. Kozlov

Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University Novosibirsk, Russian Federation

In the section The Plot in Literature and Folklore

Abstract: One of the variants of the “semantic life” of the plot of the novel by Leo Tolstoy's “War and Peace” is a poetic parody of Dmitry Minaev formally focused on the poem “Borodino” by Mikhail Lermontov. Simultaneously with its appearance, Tolstoy's novel aroused not only evaluations and interpretations in the criticism of the magazines, but also became the object of parody in satirical weeklies. The pragmatism of parodies and satirical attacks is explained by the desire to discredit the novel as a product of the “Russian Bulletin”, whose ideology and plot were allegedly due to the conservative views of Mikhail Katkov. The annexes to the article contain the text of a parody by Dmitry Minaev with commentary, as well as cartoons, allowing get an idea of the anecdotal potential of the novel, which later became an constant key text of the Russian literary canon.

Keywords: Tolstoy, Minaev, theory of parody, classics and fiction, secondary and alternativeness, carnivalization, grotesque, travesty

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