释义 |
‖ skaz|skaz| [Russ.] First-person narrative in which the author assumes a persona. Also attrib.
1926D. S. Mirsky Contemp. Russ. Lit. vii. 311 Michael Zoshchenko..is a more narrative writer: he is also an ornamentalist, but his ornamentalism is a purely colloquial skaz, which proceeds from Leskov. 1957W. E. Harkins Dict. Russ. Lit. 360 Skaz, a Russian word designating a narrative told by a fictitious narrator, rather than by the author directly. 1967Russ. Review XXVI. 177 In succeeding works Solzhenitsyn resorts to skaz only occasionally. 1974Moore & Parry Twentieth-Cent. Russ. Lit. i. 10 Remizov was a sharp stylist who often wrote in the vein of folklore; he carried on Nikolai Leskov's tradition of skaz, an attempt to reproduce the exact idiom of each speaker in a story. 1980Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Nov. 1264/4 The narrator [is] a typically Russian busybody in the ‘skaz’ tradition. |