Which Side Are You on? : Roman Jakobson in Interwar Prague

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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-4765.rus.2022.194324

Keywords:

Roman Jakobson, Prague linguistic circle, Biography, Interbellum

Abstract

The author describes the private life of Roman Jakobson between 1920 and 1939 when he lived in the former Czechoslovakia, first as a Soviet diplomat and later as a scholar caught in a thick web of political intrigues. Using archival documents, the author illustrates Roman Jakobson’s complex and often contradictory relations with the trio of political institutions within whose orbits he was moving: 1) the Ministry of Interior; 2) the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; 3) and the Soviet Red Cross Mission/Political Representation in Prague.

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Author Biographies

  • Peter Steiner, University of Pennsylvania

    Professor Emérito de Literatura Eslava da University of Pennsylvania, Russian and East European Studies. Autor, entre outros, do livro Russian Formalism: A Metapoetics. Suas principais áreas de interesse são Teoria Literária e Literatura e Cultura eslavas modernas

  • Valteir Vaz, Centro Universitário Fundação Santo André.

    Professor de Teoria Literária e Literatura Brasileira na Fundação Santo André e no Centro Estadual de Educação Tecnológica Paula Souza – Ceeteps. Pós-doutorando sobre o período tcheco de R. Jakobson na Universidade de São Paulo.

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Published

2022-04-28

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 21 (2022): Teatro russo.

Section

Ensaios

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How to Cite

Steiner, P. (2022). Which Side Are You on? : Roman Jakobson in Interwar Prague (V. Vaz , Trans.). RUS (Sao Paulo), 13(21). https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-4765.rus.2022.194324