QUESTIONING OF TRANSLATION IN THE SOVIET PERIPHERIC LITERARY STUDIES: NIKOLAY FATOV AND NINA SERPINSKAYA
The Soviet specialist in Pushkin studies Nikolay Fatov and his wife, poet Nina. Serpinskaya, set an example of the transition from the symbolist to the Soviet utopia of cultural universalism that transcends the boundaries of languages. For both of them, such universalism was based on the emotional perception of culture, the assumption of the revolutionary nature of bodily emancipation, the blurring of boundaries between art and life, between literal and intensive allegorical reading of the text. Their translation activities approached bodily performances and at the same time were assembled in the field of so called intensifying class struggle. An analysis of the rhetoric of both authors, commonly characterized as mediocrities, shows how the symbolist life-building was reinvented in the ideological realm.