Urs Heftrich - Böcker

This monograph is nothing less than a bold attempt at solving the riddle of Gogol’s novel Dead Souls that even inspired a staging of Dead Souls at Schauspiel Stuttgart. Heftrich gives a comprehensive, coherent answer to the question of the novel’s meaning by meticulously laying bare its structure. The first part of the monograph is dedicated to one section of Gogol’s novel that has been neglected by virtually all critics - a clue that leads to a strictly ethical reading of Gogol’s epic. Gogol, as it emerges, constructed Dead Souls strictly according to a moral pattern. It is amazing to discover how flawlessly Dead Souls is built in this regard. The novel thus proves to be a true descendant of medieval romance with its inseparable interrelation between ethics and epics.

Den facettenreichen Begriff Ehre an der Schnittstelle sozialgeschichtlicher und literarischer Auseinandersetzungen in Russland stellt diese Studie in den Mittelpunkt. Dabei wird deutlich, dass die russische Ehrtradition Beruhrungspunkte und Differenzen zur gesamteuropaischen Kultur aufweist.

V monografii vpervye rassmatrivaetsja žizn’ i naučnoe tvorčestvo prof. N. L. Okuneva (1885-1949), iskusstvoveda, specialista po vizantijskomu, drevnerusskomu, srednevekovomu armjanskomu, serbskomu iskusstvu i architekture. Osnovnye trudy Okuneva v perečislennych oblastjach proanalizirovany v širokom kontekste istorii krupnejšich naučnych meroprijatii (ėkspedicii po drevnerusskim gorodam, raskopki v Ani, okrytie fresok cerkvi Fedora Stratilata v Novgorode, cerkvi Pantelejmona v Nerezi i Sofijskogo sobora v Ochride i t.d.). Itogi raboty Okuneva predstavleny v svjazi so vsemi osnovnymi meždunarodnymi diskussijami v iskusstvoznanii 1 pol. XX v. Dannaja rabota vvodit v naučnyj oborot neizvestnye i maloizvestnye stat’i Okuneva, bol’šoj ob’’em novogo archivnogo materiala, rjad cennych illjustracij.