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Experts from Perm to attend 250th anniversary of Walter Scott

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Experts from Perm to attend 250th anniversary of Walter Scott


17.08.2018

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Book critics from Russian city of Perm will attend in 2021 the event dedicated to 250 anniversary of Walter Scott' birth. A scientific forum will be carried out in Edinburgh, the homeland of the author of Ivanhoe and Quentin Durward, God Literatury website reports.

The Perm scientists became known after their participation in the Sorbonne in Paris on a conference Walter Scott Alliance, Antagonism & Authorship. It has been held annually for eleven years and gathers French, English, American, German scientists and experts from many other countries.

Perm State University represented Russia there: the Dean of the Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty Boris Proskurnin and Evgeny Tokarev who has a master degree. Their work relied to one of Scott's early works - the novel The Antiquary.

According to Boris Proskurnin, this book is not wide popular among Russians and they tried to draw readers' attention to it. The plot refers to the end of the 18th century. The antiquary is an amateur historian, archaeologist and collector of antiquity. He is not the main character but his figure links the parts of the book together. The scientist explained that "The Antiquary" was Scott's own favourite of his novels. The study of Perm State University was highly appreciated by foreign colleagues.

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