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Keywords: N. V. Gogol, I. A. Vinogradov, censorship, censorship charter, power, government, laws, literary policy, ideology.
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Voropaev, V. A. “Gogol, Authorities and Censorship in the New Monograph by I. A. Vinogradov.” Dva veka russkoi klassiki, vol. 3, no. 4, 2021, pp. 198–205. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.22455/2686-7494-2021-3-4-198-205 

Author: Vladimir A. Voropaev
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Vladimir A. Voropaev, DSc in Philology, Professor of the Department of the History of Russian Literature, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory 1, 11999, Moscow, Russia

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Received: July 12, 2021
Approved after reviewing: August 29, 2021
Published: December 25, 2021
Issue: 2021 Volume 3 No. 4
Department: Scientific Life
Pages: 198–205
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22455/2686-7494-2021-3-4-198-205
UDK: 821.161.1.0

Abstract:

The review describes a new monographic study by I. A. Vinogradov, published in 2021, on the relationship between Gogol and the censorship of his time. The scale, depth, scientific thoroughness of the book of the scientist, who presented the censorship histories of N. V. Gogol’s works with numerous details, is noted. I. A. Vinogradov thoroughly refutes the ideologized approach in illuminating the issue of the relationship between the writer and the official censorship, reveals the complex and ambiguous relationship of Gogol with the censorship department, illustrates the specifics of the government’s literary policy, explains the importance of the personality of the censor in the process of working with a literary text. The monograph overcomes stereotypical ideas about the possibilities and boundaries of cooperation between the state and the individual, about the existence of an insurmountable barrier between the artist’s self-expression, his civic position and state policy. I. A. Vinogradov presents the topic of the relationship between the writer and censorship in a volumetric and multifaceted manner, asserting it as one of the most important areas of research in modern literary criticism.

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Vinogradov, I. A. N. V. Gogol’ i tsenzura. Vzaimootnosheniia khudozhnika i vlasti kak kliuchevaia problema gogolevskogo naslediia [N. V. Gogol and Censorship. The Relationship of the Artist and the Authorities as a Key IssueО of Gogol’s Heritage]. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2021. 864 p. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0659-8