Russian-Italian "Own" and "Other": a Linguoculturological Analysis of Russian Authors’ Works in Italian
The article is devoted to the comparative analysis of the cultural and communicative role of the art prose belonging to the Russian authors’ pen, but written in Italian in the first half of the XX century and at the beginning of the 21st century and also the stereotype of the Russian language/culture perception, which is made under its influence in Italy. They consider that in the history of the Russian emigration of the XX century Italy did not play a considerable role as France or Germany. However, there were periods when the Russian colony in Italy, non-uniform in its national, social and confessional signs, on the whole remained to be tightly connected with Russia and it was an outstanding historical and cultural phenomenon. Writer-emigrants’ works are subject to close attention of the Italian literary critics, who are looking for not only another point of view on topical social problems in this creativity, but also a source of up-dating of the Italian culture and society nowadays. Many natives of Russia, who settled in Italy in the first half of the XX century, created samples of the Italian prose, which instilled traditional values of the Russian literature in the Italian culture. In recent years in Italy the so-called «double prose», or «prose without the homeland» is developed in the sense that its chronotope is not defined, and language represents only conditionality, but not the entity of art thinking, and that allows speaking about formation of a new type of the language personality, which is offered to name as «marginal bilingual». The last is connected with the question maintaining originality, existence of initial idea in the context of foreign-language culture on saving or loss of the native language, traditions and features of mentality.