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Edited by María Constanza Guzmán
[Translation and Interpreting Studies 14:2] 2019
► pp. 198–217

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The Russian thick journal as a discursive space of negotiation

Jean-Paul Sartre’s reception in the Soviet Union during the Thaw Era

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Published online: 26 June 2019
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https://doi.org/10.1075/tis.00038.bol
Abstract
This paper sets out to investigate the crucial role played by Russian “thick journals,” also referred to as literary-artistic and socio-political monthlies, in Jean-Paul Sartre’s Russian reception during the Thaw era. To this end, the positions (Bourdieu, Pierre. 1983. “The Field of Cultural Production, or: The Economic World Reversed.” Poetics 121: 311–356. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar) occupied by the four thick monthlies that published Sartre’s work and/or about his work in the USSR during the Thaw are mapped. Considering the position of, and relations between, those journals sheds a different light on Sartre’s reception. It reveals how the thick journals functioned, not only as a medium for introducing Sartre, but also as a space where his reception was actively negotiated.
Article outline
  • Introduction
  • The Russian thick journal
  • Thick journals and Bourdieusian field theory
  • Sartre’s introduction in the USSR
  • Sartre in the Soviet periodical field (1947–1966)
  • Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
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