The works of Ilya Selvinsky in the mazes of local texts and global contexts
Journal: Voprosy literatury
Year: 2021

The article by A. Lyusy, a researcher specialising in ‘local texts’ of Russian literature, discusses ‘the Crimean text’ of I. Selvinsky, who, in Lyusy’s opinion, was in fact among the first authors to produce ‘the Crimean text,’ while ‘the Crimean text’ itself is interpreted as the south pole of ‘the Petersburg text.’ Considered within the Crimean context, it resurrected the real perception of the Crimea (and all of its ethnical groups) as a successor of diverse linguistic, cultural and religiou