Tangents in a Telescope: Virginia Woolf’s Georgian Tolstoy

Tangents in a Telescope: Virginia Woolf’s Georgian Tolstoy

This article offers a new slant on Virginia Woolf’s essays on Tolstoy, which evolved during her collaborative translation work with S. S. Koteliansky. First, a ‘Georgian’ vision of the great Russian novelist emerges, who, acclaimed as a great philosopher and philanthropist by the Victorians, and a m...

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spelling openedition-oai:revues.org:ebc_9407 https://doi.org/10.4000/ebc.9407 urn:doi:10.4000/ebc.9407 en https://journals.openedition.org/ebc/9407 2020-09-10T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/feam https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Tangents in a Telescope: Virginia Woolf’s Georgian Tolstoy Études britanniques contemporaines Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2271-5444 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1168-4917 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ebc Pégon-Davison, Claire This article offers a new slant on Virginia Woolf’s essays on Tolstoy, which evolved during her collaborative translation work with S. S. Koteliansky. First, a ‘Georgian’ vision of the great Russian novelist emerges, who, acclaimed as a great philosopher and philanthropist by the Victorians, and a master realist and character-artist by the Edwardians, figures now as an innovative, avant-garde writer, twisting perspectives and debunking eminent nineteenth-century mythologies. Second, Woolf’s insistence on Tolstoy’s craftsmanship brings a new, formalist concern with literary dynamics to the fore, that would profoundly alter her ownvision of aesthetics. Where Victorians hailed Tolstoy as an epic story-teller, Woolf and Forster celebrate his music, shifting the accent from plot to sounds, textures and method, just as the Russian Formalists were laying the foundations for an immense renewal of literary scholarship. Woolf’s collaborative work with Koteliansky brought her into contact not only with the great Russian classics, but also with provocative literary theories being propounded in the early years of the revolution. Cet article propose une nouvelle lecture des essais que Virginia Woolf a consacrés à Tolstoï, sur lesquels elle travaillait en même temps qu’elle traduisait du russe, en collaboration avec Kotélianski. Nous constatons tout d’abord une vision ‘Georgienne’ du grand romancier, qui, ayant été fêté par les Victoriens comme grand philosophe et philanthrope, et par les Édouardiens comme maître du réalisme et du portrait, est présenté dorénavant comme écrivain d’avant-garde, qui joue de la perspective et met à nu quelques grandes mythologies du xixe siècle. Par la suite, nous nous penchons sur les techniques de construction chez Tolstoï, tels que V.Woolf les présente, mettant en avant une fascination innovatrice, formaliste, inspirée par la dynamique littéraire, qui allait changer de façon profonde et durable la poétique woolfienne. Si les Victoriens encensaient Tolstoï, le conteur d’épopées, Woolf et Forster louangent sa musique, déplaçant le centre d’intérêt de l’intrigue aux sons, aux textures et à la méthode. De par sa collaboration avec Kotélianski, Woolf est venue à découvrir non seulement les grands classiques de la littérature russe, mais aussi les théories et manifestes littéraires qui ont vu le jour dans les premières années après la révolution.
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description This article offers a new slant on Virginia Woolf’s essays on Tolstoy, which evolved during her collaborative translation work with S. S. Koteliansky. First, a ‘Georgian’ vision of the great Russian novelist emerges, who, acclaimed as a great philosopher and philanthropist by the Victorians, and a master realist and character-artist by the Edwardians, figures now as an innovative, avant-garde writer, twisting perspectives and debunking eminent nineteenth-century mythologies. Second, Woolf’s insistence on Tolstoy’s craftsmanship brings a new, formalist concern with literary dynamics to the fore, that would profoundly alter her ownvision of aesthetics. Where Victorians hailed Tolstoy as an epic story-teller, Woolf and Forster celebrate his music, shifting the accent from plot to sounds, textures and method, just as the Russian Formalists were laying the foundations for an immense renewal of literary scholarship. Woolf’s collaborative work with Koteliansky brought her into contact not only with the great Russian classics, but also with provocative literary theories being propounded in the early years of the revolution.
author Pégon-Davison, Claire
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Tangents in a Telescope: Virginia Woolf’s Georgian Tolstoy
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title Tangents in a Telescope: Virginia Woolf’s Georgian Tolstoy
title_short Tangents in a Telescope: Virginia Woolf’s Georgian Tolstoy
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