'The Light of Slavic Studies Shines Today with Tenfold Power': Slavic Studies in Francophone Periodicals

• In Event: Modernist Network between the North and the East

Abstract

This paper proposes a comparative analysis of the reception of Czech, Ukrainian and Russian literatures in two periodicals published in the interwar period: the Belgian Le Flambeau (1918-1940) and the Prague-based French Le Monde Slave (1917-1918, 1924-1938). The aim is to reconstruct through the spectrum of the lotmanian dichotomy svoi-chuzhoi (Lotman, 1999) the image of Slavic cultures developed in the interwar francophone press. Through an extensive archive research, we will identify protagonists and spectators of this triangulation between Prague, Brussels, and Paris.

Author

• Martina Mecco, U libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)