Nikolai Klyuev from 1917 to the end of the 1920's: intellectual evolution and poetic works

• Main Author: Sinichkina, Daria
• Other Authors: Europe orientale, balkanique et médiane (EUR'ORBEM), Université Paris-Sorbonne (UP4)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Contrat Doctoral, Université Paris-Sorbonne - Paris IV, Catherine DEPRETTO
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: French
• Published: HAL CCSD 2016
• Subjects: lyric hero; «neo-peasant» poetry; homoerotic poetry; Russian revolution; peasant revolution; 1920’s; popular song; theatrality; soviet cultural policy; intellectual circle; artistic circle; NEP-era; Alexander Blok; so- viet poetry; official poetry; lyric poetry; epos; Kitez; popular culture; elite culture; Sergei Esenin; scythians; Nikolai Klyuev; Russian modernism; Silver age; literary personnality; poésie «néo- paysanne»; héros lyrique; personnalité littéraire; Âge d’argent; modernisme; Nikolaj Kljuev; homoérotisme; chant populaire; révolution paysanne; années 1920; révolution russe; théâtralité; politique culturelle soviétique; cercle intellectuel; cercle artistique; NEP; Alexandre Blok; Mihail Kuzmin; Daniil Harms; poésie soviétique; poésie officielle; lyrisme; épopée; culture populaire; Russian North
• Online Access: https://theses.hal.science/tel-01629633; https://theses.hal.science/tel-01629633/document; https://theses.hal.science/tel-01629633/file/These_Daria_Sinichkina.pdf

Nikolai Klyuev (1884-1937) is one of the most fascinating figures of the Russian «Silver age» and modernism. Forbidden for half a century after the poet’s execution, his work was almost fully recovered only at the end of the 1980’s, and the publication of the late epic poems sparked an intense interest in those poetic testimonies of the violence of collectivization. Born in the Russian North, committed to the peasant revolution, Alexander Blok’s penpal between 1907 and 1915, ideologist of neo-populism in the 1910’s, bolshevik in 1919, Klyuev became in the 1920’s a reference for the young generation of soviet poets (Harms, Vvedenski, etc.), a keeper of Russian folk culture and an example of anti-behavior whithin the frame of a mutating literary field. Attracting a diverse crown and modifying his literary persona as well as his voice regarding his audience, Klyuev thrives on stage as well as within the private circle and couple. Whilst he has found during the 1910’s a valuable aesthetic material in Russian folklore, old belief and popular songs, his poetic universe gravitates around his «self» in an egocentric manner. The utopian formula of the «isba cosmos» is formulated precisely within the lyric cycles of the 1920’s that correspond to the intimate intention of his verse. Carnal and homoerotic, the «lyric hero» is also disembodied in the Word that carries the poetic intention, the same way the mask Klyuev dons in public becomes the vehicle of his narrative identity in perpetual representation. Nikolaï Kliouev (1884-1937) est l’une des figures les plus fascinantes de l’«Âge d’argent» russe et du modernisme. Longtemps interdite après son exécution, son œuvre n’a été redécouverte qu’à la faveur du « boom » éditorial de la perestroïka, la publication de poèmes épiques tardifs suscitant un vif intérêt pour son œuvre témoignage de la violence de la collectivisation. Né dans le Nord russe, engagé pour la cause paysanne, correspondant d’Alexandre Blok entre 1907 et 1915, idéologue du néo-populisme dans les années ...