米尔斯基和他的《俄国文学史》

"公爵同志"米尔斯基是20世纪二三十年代欧美和苏联文学界、知识界的重要人物之一,他充满突转的生活经历和坚忍不拔的文学活动构成文坛的一段传奇,甚或那一代俄国知识分子之命运的缩影和象征。他用英文撰写的《俄国文学史》被纳博科夫称为"用包括俄语在内的所有语言写就的最好一部俄国文学史",所谓"米尔斯基文学史"因其"折中主义"的文学史观、主客观统一的批评手法和极富个性的话语风格而独树一帜,被视为西方俄国文学研究的奠基之作,长期被欧美高校斯拉夫系用作俄国文学史教材,其影响历久不衰。

D.S.Mirsky and His History of Russian Literature

"Comrade Prince" D.S.Mirsky is one of the most important figures in the literary and academic milieu of Europe and the Soviet Union during the 1920 and 1930s.His extraordinary life and the vigor of his writing allow us to regard him as an intellectual legend of his time and as a symbol of the fate of an entire generation of the Russian intelligentsia.Mirsky’s History of Russian Literature,which Vladimir Nabokov called "the best history of Russian literature in any language including Russian",distinguished itself by its "eclectic" view of literary history,its effective blending of objective and subjective modes of criticism and its highly individual expression.Mirsky’s History laid the foundation for Russian literary scholarship in the West and proved so influential that it remains the standard introduction to the subject up to the present day.