Lo scienziato-filosofo e il soldato rivoluzionario in Aelita (1922-1923) di Aleksej Tolstoj: dal romanzo al film
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12 août 2016
- doi: 10.4000/books.ledizioni.531
- isbn: 9788867052073
- eisbn: 9788867053568
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Raffaella Vassena, « Lo scienziato-filosofo e il soldato rivoluzionario in Aelita (1922-1923) di Aleksej Tolstoj: dal romanzo al film », Ledizioni, ID : 10.4000/books.ledizioni.531
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For a long time Soviet critics used to have classified A. N. Tolstoy’s novel Aelita (The Decline of Mars, 1922-1923) as a milestone of Soviet Science Fiction, and its character Gusev as the prototype of the ‘new Soviet man’of the Thirties. Such statements need some readjustments, especially if considering the peculiarities of Soviet Science Fiction. Throughout the years Aelita underwent several revisions, aimed at adapting the novel to the ideological requirements of the new Soviet literature. These revisions had as their main object the characters of engineer Los’and former Red Army soldier Gusev. Vassena analyses these characters in the earlier version of 1923, in their evolution through the later versions of the novel, and in Ja. A. Protazanov’s film Aelita (1924) (to which Tolstoy contributed as one of the script authors), and suggests that Tolstoy’s understanding of Russian post-revolutionary reality was more complex than Soviet critics postulated, and that the main interest of Aelita lays in its inner contradictions and polyphonic texture.