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dc.identifier	ECF_article_12282
dc.title	The Volga, Mother of All Russian Rivers, Silent Protagonist of Vasilij Grossman’s Novel Stalingrad
dc.contributor.author	Baselica Giulia
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/the-venice-journal-of-environmental-humanities/2023/1/the-volga-mother-of-all-russian-rivers-silent-prot/
dc.description.abstract	In Russian history and culture, the Volga River represents not only a fundamental element of the landscape, but also an important cultural motif, celebrated in numerous folkloric expressions from the very beginnings of the civilisations that arose along its banks and in the territories it crossed. Starting from the end of the 18th century, the image of the river also became a literary motif and its presence connotes the poetic and prose writings in the following centuries. The Volga River also flows through Vasily Grossman's novels and short stories and in particular in the novel 'Stalingrad', its presence is substantial and, above all, is marked by a semantic stratification of remarkable interest. The Volga is here a silent interlocutor of the novel's protagonists and its changing appearance reflects individual and collective instances, against the backdrop of the dramatic Battle of Stalingrad
dc.relation.ispartof	Lagoonscapes
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 3 \| Issue 1 \| June 2023
dc.issued	2023-06-28
dc.dateAccepted	2023-05-10
dc.dateSubmitted	2023-03-01
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2785-2709
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/LGSP/2785-2709/2023/01/010
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Russian Literature
dc.subject	Russian rivers
dc.subject	Stalingrad
dc.subject	Vasilij Grossman
dc.subject	Volga

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The Volga, Mother of All Russian Rivers, Silent Protagonist of Vasilij Grossman’s Novel Stalingrad

Giulia Baselica Università degli Studi di Torino, Italia

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In Russian history and culture, the Volga River represents not only a fundamental element of the landscape, but also an important cultural motif, celebrated in numerous folkloric expressions from the very beginnings of the civilisations that arose along its banks and in the territories it crossed. Starting from the end of the 18th century, the image of the river also became a literary motif and its presence connotes the poetic and prose writings in the following centuries. The Volga River also flows through Vasily Grossman's novels and short stories and in particular in the novel 'Stalingrad', its presence is substantial and, above all, is marked by a semantic stratification of remarkable interest. The Volga is here a silent interlocutor of the novel's protagonists and its changing appearance reflects individual and collective instances, against the backdrop of the dramatic Battle of Stalingrad

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Keywords: Vasilij Grossman • Stalingrad • Russian rivers • Russian Literature • Volga

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