Journal archive

Abstract: The article explores early examples of literary interviews as a genre and describes the forms of interaction between the interviewer and the interviewee and variants of presentation of the material in the periodical press of the late 20th – early 20th century. New material previously unexplored is introduced into scholarly discourse. Literary interviews are considered through a narratological approach, which allows interpreting the formal and content-related aspects and compares the modern approach to the genre of interview and the retrospective one, based on working out the definition of the genre in the period under study and the representation of genre characteristics in the samples of this genre of mass media. The analysis is based on the following criteria: the structure of the interview, the purpose of the introduction (introductory part) in analytical essays and the transfer of its content into the genre of notes, and the event-driven topical field. The study defines the genre of “literary interview”, presents the predecessors of the genre, formulates a methodological approach to writing interviews during this period, and determines the dependence of interaction on the narratological framework offered to the writer by the correspondent of the publication. The author makes a conclusion about the topical diversity of interviews, their stylistic features, the possibility of using the material of conversations with writers to analyze the public self-reflection of the writers’ community on topical socio-cultural questions and the ability of literature to answer them.

About the author(s) :

Elena A. Selyutina
Chelyabinsk State Institute of Culture (Chelyabinsk, Russia)
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5982-6208

Publication Timeline:

Date of receipt: 05.09.2022; date of publication: 29.12.2022

References:

A. P. Chekhov ob igre akterov [A. P. Chekhov about Acting]. (1915). In Vechernie vesti gazety «Patrul’». April 13 (228), p. 4.
Abasheva, M. P. (2001). Literatura v poiskakh litsa (russkaya proza kontsa XX veka: stanovlenie avtorskoi identichnosti)
[Literature in Search of a Face (Russian Prose of the Late 20th Century: The Formation of the Author’s Identity)]. Perm,
Izdatel’stvo Permskogo universiteta. 318 p.
Aleksandrov, A. S. (2019). Otvety pisatelei na ankety periodicheskikh izdanii nachala XX veka [Writer’s Answers to
the Questionnaires of Periodicals of the Beginning of the 20th Century]. In Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta.
No. 447, pp. 5–10.
Beseda s N. A. Teffi [Conversation with N. A. Teffi]. (1916). In Vechernie izvestija. March3 (924), p. 8.
Brokgauz, F. A., Efron I. A. (1898). Portret [Portrait]. In Entsiklopedicheskii slovar’: v 86 t. Vol. 48. Saint Petersburg,
Tipo-litografiya I. A. Efrona, p. 323.
Bunin o poezii [Bunin about Poetry]. (1912). In Golos Moskvy. October 22 (217), p. 5.

Chekhov o samom sebe [Chekhov about Himself]. (1911). In Kinematograf. No. 10 (11), p. 4.
Chekhov o Tolstom [Chekhov about Tolstoy]. (1910). In Moskovskaya gazeta. November 8 (47), p. 2.
Chernyak, M. (2020). Selfi na fone epokhi: biblionavigator po sovremennoi literature [Selfie Against the Backdrop of the
Era: A Bibliographic Navigator for Modern Literature]. Moscow, RShBA. 352 p.
D. S. Merezhkovskii o moskvichakh: iz besedy s pisatelem [D. S. Merezhkovsky about Muscovites: From a Conversation
with a Writer]. (1913). In Vechernie izvestiya. November 4 (320), p. 2.
Dal, V. I. (1880). Tolkovyi slovar’ zhivago velikorusskago jazyka: v 4 t. [Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian
Language, in 4 vols.]. Vol. 1. Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Tipografiya M. O. Vol’fa, p. 85.
Danilevsky, G. (1987). Poezdka v Yasnuyu Polyanu [Trip to Yasnaya Polyana]. In Interv’yu i besedy s L’vom Tolstym. Moscow,
Sovremennik, pp. 18–25.
Fidler, F. F. (2008). Iz mira literatorov: kharaktery i suzhdeniya [From the World of Writers: Characters and Judgments].
Moscow, Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie. 861 p.
Fitzsimons, E. (2015). Entering “The Woman’s World”: Oscar Wilde as Editor of a Woman’s Magazine. In The Wictorian
Web: Literature, History & Culture in the Age of Victoria. September 16. URL: https://victorianweb.org/authors/wilde/fitzsimons.
html.
Gde zhe budushhee?: beseda s K. Chukovskim [Where Is the Future?: A Conversation with K. Chukovsky]. (1913).
In Vechernie izvestiya. October 28 (314), p. 3.
I. A. Bunin o teatre [I. A. Bunin about the Theater]. (1912). In Vechernie izvestiya. October 26 (21), p. 3.
I. A. Bunin: interv’yu v svyazi s 25-letiem literaturnoi deyatel’nosti [I. A. Bunin: Interview in Connection with the
25th Anniversary of Literary Activity]. (1912). In Golos Moskvy. October 24 (245), p. 4.
Ilchenko, S. N. (2016). Interv’yu v zhurnalistike: kak eto delaetsya [Interview in Journalism: How It’s Done]. Saint Petersburg,
Sankt-Peterburgskii gosudarstvennyi universitet, Institutt «Vysshaya shkoka zhurnalistiki i massovykh kommunikatsii
». 236 p.
Korostelev, O., Djevis, R. (Eds.). (2004). I. A. Bunin: Novye materialy [I. A. Bunin: New Materials]. Issue 1. Moscow,
Russkii put’. 584 p.
Kuprin, A. I. (2007). Interv’yu. Ankety [Interview. Questionnaires]. In Kuprin A. I. Polnoe sobranie sochinenii: v 10 t.
Vol. 10: Zametki publitsista, satirika i literaturnogo kritika. Interv’yu, ankety. Moscow, Voskresenie, pp. 307–338.
L. Andreev o voine: interviyu pisatelya [L. Andreev about the War: An Interview with the Writer]. (1914). In Vechernie
izvestiya. September 13 (566), p. 3.
L. N. Andreev, A. V. Amfiteatrov i A. I. Kuprin [L. N. Andreev, A. V. Amfiteatrov and A. I. Kuprin]. (1916). In Vechernie
izvestiya. September 9 (1080), p. 3.
Labov, W., Waletzky, J. (1966). Narrative Analysis: Oral Versions of Personal Experience. In Helm, J. (Ed.). Essays on
the Verbal and Visual Arts: Proceedings of the American Ethnological Society. Seattle, University of Washington Press, pp. 12–44.
Lakshin, V. Ya. (1987). Lev Tolstoi glazami sovremennikov [Leo Tolstoy through the Eyes of Contemporaries]. In Interv’yu
i besedy s L’vom Tolstym. Moscow, Sovremennik, pp. 3–17.
Leonid Andreev o svoikh kritikakh: beseda s pisatelem [Leonid Andreev about His Critics: A Conversation with
a Writer]. (1907). In Nash ponedel’nik. December 17 (5), p. 4.
M. Gor’kii i korrespondenty [M. Gorky and Correspondents]. (1911). In Gazeta-Kopeika. January 25. No. 15 (585).
M. P. Artsybashev o samom sebe [M.R. Artsybashev about Himself]. (1910). In Golos Moskvy. November 18 (266), p. 6.
Makarova, P. A. (2020). O vliyanii zhanra literaturnogo portreta na literaturnyi reportazh kontsa XIX veka (na osnovanii
publikatsii Zh. Yure v gazete Eko de Pari) [On the Influence of the Literary Portrait Genre on the Literary Reportage
of the End of the 19th Century (Based on J. Huret’s Publications in the Eco de Paris Newspaper)]. In Vestnik Moskovskogo
universiteta. Seriya 10. Zhurnalistika. No. 4, pp. 80–100.
Malen’koe interv’yu: beseda s M. Arcybashevym [A Short Interview: A Conversation with M. Artsybashev]. (1912).
In Golos Moskvy. March 14 (61), p. 5.
Odinoky, V. (1912). Protivorechivoe tvorchestvo [Contradictory Creativity]. In Novyi put’. January 2 (1), p. 2.
Pervye literaturnye shagi: avtobiografii sovremennykh russkikh pisatelei [First Literary Steps: Autobiographies
of Modern Russian Writers]. (1911). Moscow. 268 p.
Politika i stsena: beseda s I. Kolyshko [Politics and Stage: A Conversation with I. Kolyshko]. (1910). In Rannee utro.
December 18 (292), p. 3.
Priezd A. I. Kuprina [Arrival of A. I. Kuprin]. (1910). In Golos Moskvy. February 26 (46), p. 5.
Protest Korolenko: pis’mo v gazetu «Rech’» [Korolenko’s Protest: A Letter to the Rech Newspaper]. (1916). In Vechernie
izvestiya. August 3 (1051), p. 5.
Reginin, V. (1909). Kuprin o svoikh planakh [Kuprin about His Plans]. In Birzhevye vedomosti. February 28 (10984), p. 6.
Reitblat, A. I. (1997). Roman literaturnogo krakha [A Novel of Literary Collapse]. In Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie. No 25,
pp. 99–109.
Reitblat, A. I. (2001). Kak Pushkin vyshel v genii: Istoriko-sociologicheskie ocherki o knizhnoi kul’ture Pushkinskoi epokhi [How
Pushkin Became a Genius: Historical and Sociological Essays on the Book Culture of the Pushkin Era]. Moscow, Novoe
literaturnoe obozrenie. 336 p.
Riniker, D. (2004). «Literatura poslednikh godov – ne progressivnoe, a regressivnoe yavlenie vo vsekh otnosheniyah
»: Ivan Bunin v russkoi periodicheskoi pechati (1902–1917) [“The Literature of Recent Years Is Not a Progressive, but
a Regressive Phenomenon in All Respects”: Ivan Bunin in Russian Periodicals (1902–1917)]. In Korostelev, O., Djevis, R.
(Eds.). I. A. Bunin: Novye materialy: Vyp. 1. Moscow, Russkii put’.
Rossiiskie literatory nachala XX veka na stranitsakh moskovskikh gazet. 1901–1917: bibliograficheskii ukazatel’:
v 2 t. [Russian Writers of the Early 20th Century on the Pages of Moscow Newspapers. 1901–1917: Bibliographic Index, in
2 vols.]. (2019). Vol. 1. Moscow, Pashkov dom. 470 p.

Rossiiskie literatory nachala XX veka na stranitsakh moskovskikh gazet. 1901–1917: bibliograficheskii ukazatel’:
v 2 t. [Russian Writers of the Early 20th Century on the Pages of Moscow Newspapers. 1901–1917: Bibliographic Index,
in 2 vols.]. (2019). Vol. 2. Moscow, Pashkov dom. 468 p.
Silantyev, I. V. (2013). Narrativ v literature i istorii. Na materiale dnevnikovoi prozy A. Gertsena 1840-kh gg. [Narrative
in Literature and History. On the Material of A. Herzen’s Diary Prose of the 1840s.]. In Sibirskii filologicheskii zhurnal.
No. 3, pp. 58–68.
Tashlykov, S. A. (Ed.). (2020). Kuprin v zerkale interv’yu [Kuprin in the Mirror of the Interview]. Irkutsk, Izdatel’stvo
IGU. 239 p.
Tertychnyi, A. A. (2017). Zhanry periodicheskoi pechati [Genres of Periodical Press]. Moscow, Aspekt-Press.
Tugusheva, E. F. (2018). Interv’yu s pisatelem kak istochnik metapoeticheskikh dannykh o yazyke noveishei khudozhestvennoi
literatury [Interview with a Writer as a Source of Metapoetic Data on the Language of Modern Fiction].
In Gramota: Filologicheskie nauki. Voprosy teorii i praktiki. No. 8 (86). Part 1, pp. 57–61.
U A. I. Kuprina [At A. I. Kuprina]. (1910). In Russkoe slovo. March 14 (60), p. 6.
U A. I. Kuprina [At A. I. Kuprina]. (1915). In Vechernie izvestiya. May 25, p. 2.
U avtora «Dushi, tela i plat’ya»: beseda s dramaturgom P. A. Oleninym [From the Author of “Soul, Body and Dress”:
A Conversation with the Playwright P. A. Olenin]. (1911). In Moskovskaya gazeta. November 13 (158), p. 5.
U I. S. Shmeleva [At I. S. Shmelev]. (1916). In Vechernie izvestiya. March 16 (935), p. 8.
U I. V. Shpazhinskogo [At I. V. Shpazhinskogo]. (1901). In Teatral’nye izvestiya. November 6 (1262), p. 2.
U Kuprina [At Kuprina]. (1905). In Peterburgskaya gazeta. August 4 (203), p. 4.
U Kuprina [At Kuprina]. (1909). In Golos Moskvy. October 13 (234), p. 2.
U S. Yushkevicha [At S. Yushkevicha]. (1914). In Golos Moskvy. November 20 (268), p. 5.
U Semena Yushkevicha: Est’ talantlivye lyudi i bestalannaya literatura [Semyon Yushkevich: There Are Talented
People and Mediocre Literature]. (1912). In Rannee utro. September 13 (211), p. 4.
U Vyacheslava Ivanova [At Vyacheslav Ivanov]. (1914). In Golos Moskvy. December 2 (277), p. 4.
V gostyakh u A. I. Kuprina [Visiting A. I. Kuprin]. (1909). In Peterburgskaya gazeta. June 9 (155), p. 5.
Vakhnenko, E. E. (2019). Redaktsionnaya politika gazety «Birzhevye vedomosti» v kontekste istoricheskogo sloma
(iyul’ 1914 – oktyabr’ 1917 goda) [Editorial Policy of the Newspaper “Birzhevye Vedomosti” in the Context of the Historical
Breakdown (July 1914 – October 1917)]. In Sibirskii filologicheskii zhurnal. No. 4, pp. 101–115.
Yuryev, D. Yu. (2016). Tvorcheskaya lichnost’ M. Elizarova: aspekty kriticheskoi refleksii i samoidentifikatsii [Creative
Personality of M. Elizarov: Aspects of Critical Reflection and Self-Identification]. In Nauchnyi zhurnal KubGAU.
No. 120 (06). URL: https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/tvorcheskaya-lichnost-m-elizar-ova-aspekty-kriticheskoy-refleksii-
i-samoidentifikatsii (mode of access: 02.08.2022).
Za 25 let: yubileinoe interv’yu s E. N. Chirikovym [For 25 Years: Anniversary Interview with E. N. Chirikov]. (1911).
In Russkoe slovo. January 22 (17), p. 2.
Zaimstvoval li Andreev «Anatemu»? K obvineniyu pisatelya v plagiate [Did Andreev Borrow Anatema? To the Accusation
of the Writer of Plagiarism]. (1909). In Rannee utro. November 27 (272), p. 4.