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Abstract: The article features an excerpt from Chumakov’s memoirs, describing how, in the late 1960s, he got acquainted with Lotman’s book Lectures on Structural Poetics and then met the author of the lectures at the Pushkin Conference in Pskov. According to the memoirist, Lotman’s Lectures on Structural Poetics gave literary studies in the 1970s a new language, which may then have been modified within some other schools of literary studies, but it laid the foundation for the scientific description of the fiction text. Investigation of the fiction text has been characterized since the late 1960s by the structuralist approach. The memoirs also mention Chumakov’s defending his candidate dissertation, in which Lotman acted as an opponent (the dissertation was entitled “Problems of Pushkin’s Poetics: (Lyrics, The Stone Guest, Eugene Onegin)” and was defended in Saratov, in 1970. One part of Chumakov’s candidate dissertation, as well as his report at the Pushkin conference in Pskov, was devoted to the role of the notes and “Passages from Onegin’s Journey” in Pushkin’s novel “Eugene Onegin”. Independently of each other, Chumakov and Lotman came to the conclusion that the notes are not a supplement, but real independent parts within the novel in verse, along with its eight chapters.

About the author(s) :

Kapinos Elena Vladimirovna 

Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (Novosibirsk, Russia)

Publication Timeline:

Date of receipt: 22.02.2022; date of publication: 30.03.2022

References:

Chumakov, Yu. N. (1969). O sostave i granitsakh teksta «Evgeniya Onegina» [On the Composition and Boundaries of the Text of “Eugene Onegin”]. In Russkii yazyk v kirgizskoi shkole. No. 1 (57), pp. 32-33.

Chumakov, Yu. N. (1970). Kompozitsiya dvukh poslanii k Chaadaevu i evolyutsiya pushkinskogo stilya [Composition of Two Epistles to Chaadaev and the Evolution of Pushkin’s Style] In Metod i masterstvo. Issue 1: Russkaya literatura. Vologda, Vologodskii gosudarstvennyi pedagogicheskii iniversitet, pp. 92-107.

Chumakov, Yu. N. (1970). Problemy poetiki Pushkina: (lirika, «Kamennyi gost’», «Evgenii Onegin») [The Problems of Pushkin’s Poetics: (Lyrics, “The Stone Guest”, “Eugene Onegin”)]. Dis. … kand. filol. nauk. Saratov.

Chumakov, Yu. N. (1978). Poeticheskoe i universal’noe v «Evgenii Onegine» [Poetic and Universal in “Eugene Onegin”]. In Boldinskie chteniya. Gorky, pp. 75-90.

Lotman, Yu. M. (1964). Lektsii po struktural’noi poetike: Vvedenie. Teoriya stikha [The Lectures on Structural Poetics: Introduction. The theory of verse]. Tartu. 195 p. (Ser. «Trudy po znakovym sistemam»).

Lotman, Yu. M. (1982). Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin. Biografiya pisatelya [Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin. Biography of the Writer]. Leningrad, Enlightenment. 256 p.

Lotman, Yu. M. (1997). Pis’ma. 1940–1993 [The Letters. 1940–1993]. Moscow, Yazyki russkoi kul’tury. 800 p.