«Гегель труден, но лучше, то есть ближе, не напишешь»: романы Бориса Поплавского как «гегелевский текст» русской литературы

Новое литературное обозрение. 2019. Т. 156. С. 41–59.

Tokarev D.

The article analyzes the Hegelian subtext in the novels of the émigré poet, writer, and amateur philosopher Boris Poplavsky (1903–1935). In the novel Apollon Bezobrazov, dialectical consciousness, described by Hegel in the fourth chapter of The Phenomenology of Spirit, organizes the text not only on an ideological level, but also on the level of its narrative structure. This is proof that Poplavsky was familiar with Hegel’s philosophy before he became a “diligent student” of the subsequently famous seminars on The Phenomenology of Spirit led by Alexandre Kojève from 1933 to 1939 at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris. Poplavsky officially attended Kojève’s classes during the 1934–1935 academic year, which allows for a new reading of his second novel, Homeward from Heaven, which he worked on at the same time as he was participating in the seminar.

Keywords: «Феноменология духа», Russian emigration, Александр Кожев, Alexandre Kojève, Русская эмиграция во Франции, Boris Poplavsky, Борис Поплавский, G. W. F. Hegel, Г. В. Ф. Гегель, The Phenomenology of Spirit, novels "Apollon Bezobrazov" and "Homeward from Heaven", Романы "Аполлон Безобразов" и "Домой с небес"

Publication based on the results of: Russian literature at the crossroads of cultures (2019)