“Anecdote in the Vein of Herodotus”: Shuttling between Particulars and the Universal in Boris Slutskii's and Ian Satunovskii's War Poetry
Journal: Slavic Review
Year: 2023

The article provides a comparative analysis of how two key poets, Boris Slutskii and Ian Satunovskii, responded to World War II, in which they both fought, in the poems written at the front or shortly thereafter. Via Lydia Ginzburg's notion of the deductive and inductive modes in lyric poetry, the article reveals how Slutskii and Satunovskii approach the figure of the enemy and shuttle between particulars and the universal in their verse. Dissimilar in their life choices (official for Slutskii a