“The Heavy Lyre”: Around One of Bronislav Malakhovsky’s Cartoons
Journal: Studies in Theory of Literary Plot and Narratology
Year: 2021

The essay is dedicated to the caricature of Nikolai Zabolotsky by the famous Leningrad graphic artist Bronislav Malakhovsky (1902–1937), the author of numerous “writer’s caricatures.” The development of this genre in the Soviet press of the 1930s is related to the artistic practices of the pre-revolutionary magazine “Satyricon,” where caricatures also served as an artistic expression of corresponding epigrams or literary parodies. In the Soviet times, this genre was used for the purposes of ideo