Теодор Драйзер - "советский зарубежный классик"

Abstract

В статье рассматривается феномен "советского Драйзера", которого в СССР литературная критика объявила крупнейшим американским писателем ХХ века и лучшим другом Советского Союза.

The Soviet literary pantheon of foreign writers widely read and popular in the USSR was made up as a result of conscious focused efforts and purposeful work of Soviet literary institutions. The case study ofTheodore Dreiser (who was criticized as a "petty-bourgeois individualist" in the 1920s but gained a reputation of the greatest twentieth-century American classic and the best friend of the Soviet Union by the early 1930s) allows the researchers to uncover and analyze the mechanism of emergence of such a phenomenon as "a Soviet foreign classic".