Voyage littéraire autour d un "continent imaginaire" : Russie - Argentine, aller et retour

Résumé En

Literary Voyage around an “ Imaginary Continent ” : From Russia to Argentina – and back. Russia through the prism of “ Literature ” : The narrator of Edgardo Cozarinsky’s significantly entitled story characterizes his personal Russia as a – thoroughly (inter­) textualized – “ imaginary continent ”. This article , based on a corpus of Argentine and Russian texts (with particular focus on the works of Alberto Gerchunoff, Abrasha Rotenberg, Edgardo Cozarinsky, Ricardo Feierstein , and Vladimir Kantor), explores various literary representations of this “ imaginary continent ”, the presence of Russian history, language and culture in the writings of Russian­Jewish immigrants to Argentina and their descendants , from the beginning of the 20th century up to the present day. From a peripheral point of view, these texts , intertwining great history and family chronicles, literary reminiscences and political considerations, create a complex image of a palimpsestic Russia . Confronting different Russian / Soviet visions of Argentina and Argentine perspectives on Russia and the Soviet Union, they illustrate the evolution of the respective auto­ and hetero­images in changing historical contexts, as well as the crucial role of literature in this intercultural dynamics.