Liminality in Vasilii Aksënov’s Émigré Writing: Literary Traces of His Transit Journey Through Paris
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- Fitzé, Eliane ORCID University of Fribourg
- 2024
Published in:
- Зборник Матице српске за славистику. - Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade. - 2024, vol. 2024, no. 106, p. 105-115
English
This paper explores the concept of liminality in the émigré writing of Vasilii Aksënov (1932–2009). Aksënov had to leave the Soviet Union in 1980 and spent about three months in Paris and other places in Europe before boarding a plane to the US, his chosen destination. Little is known about his summer in Europe, but the way Aksënov’s stories conceive of Paris — a frequent place of action in Aksënov’s writing — suggests an influence of his transit journey through Paris on his writing. Paris seems to be a liminal space, marked by transit-ness, and the liminality that results from the moment of transit has an effect on how Aksënov’s protagonists conceive of time and space and their own being in the world.
- Faculty
- Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines
- Department
- Département d'études européennes et de la slavistique
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- English
- License
- License undefined
- Open access status
- gold
- Identifiers
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- DOI 10.18485/ms_zmss.2024.106.6
- ISSN 0352-5007
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/331457
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