This issue of “Codex Manuscriptus” (No. 6) presents the first publication of Victor Hugo’s letters to his publishers. Furthermore, it utilizes archival documents to elucidate the publication history of P. Muratov’s essay “A Journey to Apulia” in Italy and E. Zamyatin’s book on H.G. Wells. The relationships between the Moscow and Leningrad branches of the State Publishing House (GIZ) and the operations of the “World Literature” publishing house are reconstructed based on archival sources. The issue also includes the first publication of a translation of Claude Simon’s novel “The Invitation” from the archives of the "Foreign literature" (“Inostrannaya Literatura”) journal. This volume is intended for specialists in philology, history, and cultural studies, as well as for a broad spectrum of readers with an interest in the history of literature and publishing.
CONTENTS
RESEARCH
History of Text: Literary Work in the Publishing Process
Natalia A. Elagina. History of a Book. Victor Hugo Publishes the First Series of “The Legend of the Ages” (1859)
Kirill A. Chekalov. Jules Verne: On the Issue of “De-Hetzelization”
Marina Iu. Liubimova. The Creative History of the Book “Herbert Wells” by E.I. Zamyatin
Donatella Di Leo. Towards the Publication of Pavel Muratov’s Essay “Journey to Apulia” (1925) in Italian Language
Sociology of the Literary Process: Institutions and Projects
Olga R. Demidova. Power Strategies and Publishing Practices
Daria S. Moskovskaya. On the History of the Gosizdat of the Nep Era. Documents of the Inspection of the Leningrad Branch of the State Publishing House by the Workers’ and Peasants’ Inspectorate (1924–1926)
Dmitry V. Fomin. The Problems of Illustrating Fiction in Theoretical Discussions of the First Third of the 20th century
Kristina V. Sarycheva. Translation of “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” by Vladimir Fisher in Soviet Publishing Houses in the 1930s
ARCHIVAL PUBLICATIONS
Biographic Studies: The “World Literature” Publishing House in Documents
Iakov V. Slepkov. Vera Ahrens and “World Literature” (Translation, Which Has Not Found a Publisher)
Iakov V. Slepkov, Anastasia A. Khrobostova. Unpublished Translation by Vera Ahrens. Francis Jammes. Almaida d’Etremont, or The Story of a Passionate Young Girl
Yakov D. Chechnev. E.M. Braudo and the “World Literature” Publishing House (New Archival Materials for an Academic Biography)
Anfisa D. Savina. Collection “Expressionism” in the Publishing House “World Literature”: From Intention to Implementation
Francesca Lazzarin. A Club’s “World Literature”. The Work in a Unique Publishing House Through Its Staff’s Albums
Larisa G. Zhukhovitskaya. Three Addresses on Mokhovaya: Afterword to the History of the Publishing House “World Literature” (Based on the Materials from the A.M. Gorky Archive)
Source Studies. Contexts of the Era
Maksim L. Fedorov. How Demyan Bedny — “a Harmful Man” — Deceived Himself. (on the Creative History of the Epic “Rock Formation”)
Natalya Yu. Bakshaeva. Boris Bozhnev in the 1920s: Newly Found Poems in the Context of the Biography of the “Elusive” Poet (Based on the Materials of the Manuscript Department of the IWL RAS)
Kristina R. Buynova. “Pasternak’s Shadow”: Spanish-Language Responses to Sholokhov’s Nobel Prize (Based on the Collection of K.I. Priyma)
Maria V. Mishurovskaya. “Mysterious Editorial Board”, or the Battle for M.A. Bulgakov: About One Multi-Volume Book That Never Came Out in the Late USSR
From the Creative Legacy of the Writers
Alexey G. Vishnyakov. “Incredulous, Like in a Dream.” “Invitation” (1987) by Claude Simon
Marina A. Arias-Vikhil. On the Novel by Claude Simon. Appendix: C. Simon, “The Invitation”
REPORTS AND NOTES
From the History of Cultural Life
Natalya G. Patrusheva. Forty Books of the “Chocolate Library” of S. Vasiliev’s Confectionery Factory
Elena A. Andrushchenko. Handwritten Draft of the Obituary “To V.D. Nabokov” (<1922>) by Z.N. Gippius
Pavel S. Glushakov. Unpublished Testimony About the Story “Slander”: on the Issue of Reception of Vasily Shukshin’s Work
Commemorative Dates and Anniversaries
On the 70th Birthday of Serge Rolle
