Russia as a Life and Writing Experience: The Journals Of A White Sea Wolf by Mariusz Wilk

• Main Author: Després, Isabelle
• Other Authors: Institut des Langues et Cultures d'Europe, Amérique, Afrique, Asie et Australie (ILCEA4), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: HAL CCSD 2021
• Subjects: travel writer; post‑Soviet Russia; Solovki Islands; Gulag; monastery; monk‑chronicist; Joseph de Maistre; Fedor Tyutchev; Ryszard Kapuściński; écrivain-voyageur; Russie post-soviétique; îles Solovki; Goulag; monastère; moine-chroniqueur; Fedor Tioutchev; [SHS.LITT]Humanities and Social Sciences/Literature; Faraway; Soi; Solovetsky; Solovki; White Sea; Solovetsky Islands
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03200150; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03200150/document; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03200150/file/SLOVO51_4_Art3_IDespres.pdf

International audience Mariusz Wilk is a Polish prose‑writer, who travels to the remote north of Russia. His first book, The journals of a White Sea wolf reveals his originality. He tries to delve into the mysteries of the ‘Russian soul’ and history, for that he chooses to blend in with local life....