Vzvichrennaja Rus’ di Aleksej Remizov: un’epopea modernista della Russia rivoluzionaria

This essay focuses on Aleksei Remizov’s autofictional novel Vzvikhrennaia Rus’ (Russia in the Whirlwind, 1927), which covers the period between the Russian Revolution and the Civil War (1917-1921). It is one of the most experimental, original, and significant works of Russian Modernist writing. The essay focuses on the novel’s genre, compositional structure, narrative strategies, language, motifs, and images. Vzvikhrennaia Rus’ was immediately recognized by contemporaries as one of the most enigmatic and ambitious portraits of the revolutionary period and as a masterpiece of Remizov’s experimental prose.