История одного города” М. Е. Салтыкова-Щедрина и „Михаилу Евграфовичу” В. Пьецуха: русская ментальность

Abstract

The article is devoted to Vyacheslav Pyetsukh’s reception of Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin’s satire “The History of a Town”. In “The History of the Town of Glupov in New and Modern Times” and “The Town of Glupov in the Last Ten Years” Pyetsukh develops the motif of irrationality in Russian government and public life. The author also analyzes the semantic and axiological aspects of ‘Russian- ness’ in Pyetsukh’s texts.