Arsamas (literature)
The Arsamas ( Russian Арзама́с ) was a literary society or group of Russian romanticism, whose members included Alexander Sergejewitsch Pushkin .
history
The Arsamas was a literary group that formed in 1815 and took part in the polemics around the Karamzinist reform of the Russian literary language and style until 1818 . Its members, which include the most important representatives of Russian romanticism (including Vasily Zhukovsky , Batyushkow , Vyazemsky , Alexander Pushkin ) are also known as the Karamzinists . Her polemics, which were characterized by great irony and humor, were directed in particular against the literary society of lovers of the Russian word and other so-called archaists .
The Arsamas held closed sessions in which the works of the archaists were parodied. In contrast to the bureaucratic gatherings of the conservative "lovers of the Russian word", the meetings of the Arzamas resembled cheerful, humorous evenings among good friends. The name is taken from a parody of Batyushkov, and all members chose amusing nicknames.
In 1816 the society of conservative "lovers" had dissolved and the Arsamas reconsidered their activities. When some of its members left Petersburg and also suggested General MF Orlov publish a magazine with a liberal political program, the society dissolved in 1818.
literature
- Barry Hollingsworth: Arzamas: Portrait of a Literary Society . London , Cambridge University Press. 1966. (English only)
- Dmitri Tschischewski : Russian literary history of the 19th century: I. The romanticism . Munich , Eidos Verlag (Forum Slavicum), 1964. (The Karamzins School; 19–31)