Le Studio franco-russe (1929-1931)

The Studio franco-russe, 1929-1931 The article examines the history and implications of the Studio franco-russe, an initiative of regular intellectual and cultural exchanges between the Russian émigré writers and thinkers who took refuge in France after the Bolshevik coup of 1917 and their French col- leagues, which took place in the inter-war Paris at the time of a radical shift in European ideological paradigms. Created by the younger artistic generation of Russian exiles in an effort to span the gap separating their creative activity from the French cultural circles, the Studio became a major venue of intellectual commerce, where a wide array of Russian and French cultural figures were united in open and public debates on the esthetic, philosophical, and moral dilemmas of the day. Archival documents and contemporary critical accounts which shed light on the work of the Studio, as well as the stenographic records of its fourteen meetings allow a relatively faithful reconstruction and analysis of an intellectual adventure unprecedented in the annals of Russian-French cultural interaction.Livak Leonid. Le Studio franco-russe (1929-1931). In: Revue des études slaves, tome 75, fascicule 1, 2004. pp. 109-123