Миколас Банявичюс о русской литературе

Abstract

The article reviews works written by lecturer of Lithuanian University in Kaunas Mykolas Banevicius in the field of Russian literature. This Lithuanian literary critic was Russian by birth. His real name was Mikhail Podshibiakin (1883 - 1963). After he escaped to Lithuania from Bolsheviks terror, he lectured Russian language and literature, published his articles in Lithuanian magazines. The author of the article in details analyzes one of the biggest works written by Podshibiakin-Banevicius "Proletarian Literature in Soviet Russia", published in series of University scientific works "Darbai ir dienos" (1930). The literary critic reviewed literary movement in 1920 from the overlap of real literature till the triumph of primitive and ideologically converted texts