Простота стиля и конструирование идеального эпистолярного ‘я’: пример писем из ссылки Александра Радищева

Abstract

The present paper focuses on simplicity as a linguistic category of epistolary communication in eighteenth-­century Russia. It shows how Radishchev, known after the publication of The Journey from Petersburg to Moscow as a writer with an inflated style, used simplicity in his letters from exile to build his epistolary ‘ideal self’ and stage the relationship he was longing to have with his former patron and protector Count Alexander Vorontsov.

Keywords

• epistolary communication
• radishchev
• journey
• ideal self
• simplicity