TY - JOUR
TI - The Ways of Truth. Regarding Anne Charlotte Leffler’s – and August Strindberg’s – Debt to Chernyshevsky
AU - Kalinowski, Mariusz
TI - The Ways of Truth. Regarding Anne Charlotte Leffler’s – and August Strindberg’s – Debt to Chernyshevsky
AB - In her book from 2011 and article from 2013 Lynn R. Wilkinson points out striking parallels between Anne Charlotte Leffler’s play The Ways of Truth (Sanningens vägar) from 1892 and August Strindberg’s A Dream Play from 1901. I find, as I hereby show, that Leffler’s play has its roots not only in Nihilist Girl (1892), a novella by Sofia Kovalevskaya, but also – and essentially – in the novel What Is To Be Done? (1863) by Nikolay Chernyshevsky. Kovalevskaya’s whole life was determined by the ”nihilist” Chernyshevsky’s ideas, and Leffler’s writing was to a large degree determined by Kovalevskaya. In the 1880s the nihilist movement and Russian literature were the hottest intellectual fashion in Sweden. Thus: Strindberg does not borrow from Leffler. Analogies between Leffler’s The Ways of Truth and Strindberg’s Dream Play confirm indirectly A Dream Play’s ”literary dependence” on Chernyshevsky’s novel – particularly on the famous ”Vera Pavlovna’s Dreams”. The power of Russian dreams should never be underestimated.
VL - 2018
IS - 3 (2018)
PY - 2023
SP - 107
EP - 124
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/filologiskt-smorgasbord/article/sanningens-vagar-om-anne-charlotte-lefflers-och-august-strindbergs-skuld-till-tjernysjevskij
KW - Anne Charlotte Leffler
KW - Sonja Kovalevsky
KW - Sofia Kovalevskaya
KW - August Strindberg
KW - Nikolay Chernyshevsky
KW - What Is to Be Done?
KW - Vera Pavlovna’s dreams
KW - Vera Pavlovna’s fourth dream
KW - Nihilist Girl
KW - Vera Vorontzoff
KW - A Dream Play
KW - Underground Russia
KW - Russian nihilism