Marina A. Arias-Vikhil

Arias Vikhil

DSc in Philology, 

Leading Researcher of IWL RAS

Education:

Graduated from the Philology Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1981

PhD thesis:

Creativity and Queirol of the 1930s-1980s: on the Problem of the Evolution of the Creative Method (1987)

DSc (Habil.) thesis:

Romain Rolland and Maxim Gorky: Historical-functional and Socio-political Aspects of Literary Dialogue (Based on the Materials of the Gorky Archive) (2020)

Research interests:

Literary theory, textual criticism, comparative studies, source studies, interrelations of Russian, French and Italian literature of the XX-XXI centuries.

Professional Service:

  • Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the serial scientific edition Codex manuscriptus
  • Supervisor of international cooperation programs of IWL RAS

  • Member of the Editorial Board of the “Memoirs of NovSU”

  • Member of the editorial board of publications of the interinstitutional group “European Symbolism and Modernity”

  • Senior editor of the “Bibliotheca italica” series of the publishing house “Reka Vremyon”

Honorary titles and awards:

  • Award of the Annual National Competition “Book of the Year — 2011”
  • Certificate of Appreciation from the City Hall of Sorrento (October 27, 2018) for participating in the organization of the Festival “Return to Sorrento: 150 years of Maxim Gorky”
  • Commendation “For significant contribution to the development of science and conscientious work” of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation
  • Certificate of Merit “For achievements in work and many years of conscientious work” from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation

Teaching Activity:

2004–2012 — Professor of the Department of History of Foreign Literatures, Faculty of Philology, Lomonosov Moscow State University

 

Academic publications — over 120 publications, including 3 monographs.

Selected publications

Monographs

  • “The Unattainable virtue of altruism”: Maxim Gorky in Italian Criticism. To the 150th Anniversary of M. Gorky. Moscow, Azbukovnik Publ., 2018. 445 p. In Russ. 
  • Petrel versus Albatross: The French Context of Maxim Gorky's Work. Moscow, Azbukovnik (LLC "A Temp") Publ.,, 2017/2018. 492 p.In Russ. 
  • Lazarus is among us. (About the Work of the French Writer-personalist Jean Cayrol). Moscow, Academy–Academia Publ., 1994. 176 p. In Russ. 

Collective Works (editor)

  • “Doctor Zhivago”: Pasternak, 1958, Italy. An Anthology of Articles by Italian Critics, comp. S. Garzonio, А. Recchia; ed. by M.A. Arias-Vikhil. Мoscow, Reka vremen Publ., 2012. 420, [1] p.
  • Paris circa 900s. Joséphin Péladan’s “Salon de la Rose + Croix”, comp. and ed. I. Svetlov, K. Lukicheva, M.A. Arias-Vikhil. Saint Petersburg, Aleteiia Publ., 2023. 480 p.

Selected essays

  • Bunin, Gorky and Rolland in the Year of the 10th Anniversary of the October Revolution. Emigrantologia Slowian, 2021, no. 7, pp. 21–36.
  • Bogdanov and Gorky in Capri (Based on the Materials of the Archive of A.M. Gorky of the Institute of Physics and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences). Alexander Alexandrovich Bogdanov, ed. M.V. Loktionov. Moscow, Politicheskaia entsiklopediia, 2021, pp. 156–171. (In Russ.)
  • Gorky in Sorrento. Maxim Gorky: Ideological Contexts and Historical realia. Rome, UniversItalia, 2020, pp. 391–218.
  • A Reciprocal Glance: The Correspondence of R. Rolland and I.S. Shmelev. On the 150th Anniversary of I.S. Shmelev. Vestnik slavianskikh kul'tur, 2024, vol. 72, pp. 221–231. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2024-72-221-231
  • “Prospects for Gorky studies in the XXI Century. Based on Gorky Jubilee Section of the Journal ‘Vestnik Kostromskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta’.” Vestnik slavianskikh kul’tur, 2018, vol. 49, pp. 379–390. In Russ.

Scopus / Web of Science Publications

  • “Flowers of Evil” by Charles Baudelaire in the Translations and Edited by N.S. Gumilev (Unfulfilled Project by Publishing House ʽWorld Literature’). Studia Litterarum, vol. 9, no. 3, 2024, pp. 468–495. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2024-9-3-468-495 (with Ya.D. Chechnev)
  • Istrati, Rolland, Gorky: The New Facts of Soviet-French Literary Interactions of the 1920s-1930s. Literaturnyi fakt, no. 3 (33), 2024, pp. 308–332. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.22455/2541-8297-2024-33-308-332
  • From the History of Soviet-French Literary Relations in the 1930s: An Unknown Letter from French Writers to A.M. Gorky About V. Serge (Based on Materials from the Archive of A.M. Gorky). Izvestiia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka, 2024, vol. 83, no. 3, pp. 92–100. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31857/S1605788024030094
  • M.L. Lozinsky and E.I. Zamyatin on the Principles of Literary Translation at the Turn of the 1910s and 1920s. Appendix. Notes by F.D. Batyushkov and E.I. Zamyatin on Translation. Russkaia literatura, 2023, no. 1, pp. 65–75. (with M.Yu. Lubimova)
  • The First Russian Translation of Marcel Proust's Novel “Swann’s Way” (Based on the Materials of the Publishing House “World Literature”). Literaturnyi fakt, no. 2 (28), 2023, pp. 265–288. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.22455/2541-8297-2023-28-265-288
  • “Documented History of the “World Literature” Publishing House: Financial Aspect (1918–1921).” Studia Litterarum, 2020, vol. 5, no 4, pp. 374–393. In Russ.
  • “‘The Truth That the Reader So Longed for’. On the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Academician AI Solzhenitsyn.” Herald of the Russian academy of sciences, 2018, vol. 88, no. 12, pp. 1131–1141. In Russ.
  • “The Lower Depths” in Italy: the 1926 Performance by Tatyana Pavlova (Based on the Archives of A.M. Gorky).” Studia Litterarum, 2018, vol. 3, no 1, 266–281. In Russ.
  • “Russian Revolution was Prepared on Capri...” Michail Pervukhin about a Russian Colony on Capri (Based on the A.M. Gorky Archive).” Studia Litterarum, 2017, vol. 2, no 1, pp. 306–328. In Russ.