Directive title [Year] - [Directive ID code]:
Chudozhnik pered narodom [27-03-1936] - [D131]
Publication date of the directive: 27-03-1936
Journal/Newspaper Title and page: "Literaturnaja gazeta", p. 1
Journal/Newspaper number: 18(581)
Directive typology: Directive
Concise description of the directive:
Article by Vs. Ivanov within an issue of LG, all dedicated to the critique of formalism and naturalism in literature, individual writers’ interventions against formalism by Pilnyak, M. Saginyan and B. Pasternak. The virtuous examples are always Tolstoy, Pushkin, Gorky and, among the foreign classics, Homer. Among nonfiction works, the biography of Michelangelo written by Romain Rolland. See article by Vs. Ivanov Khudozhnik pered narodom, in which the role of Homer is emphasised.