Virta, NE (English spelling)

...He argued that at best there is a "conflict between good and better," and that Soviet drama must take this fact into account and move forward on a new path. This theory, formulated by the playwright Nikolai Evgen'evich Virta (1906-76) and others, was criticized in 1952 by the Communist Party's newspaper Pravda, but the problem was not limited to drama. The theory was a concentrated expression of the general tendency in Soviet literature, which had been afraid to depict the negative aspects of reality since the criticism of Zhdanov and had instead romanticized reality. This tendency was common to Stalin Prize-winning literature after World War II, such as Semyon Petrovich Babaevskii's (1909- ) two-volume Knight of the Order of the Gold Star (1947-48). ...

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…せいぜい〈よきものと，よりよきものとの葛藤〉が存在するだけであり，ソ連の劇作はそのことを踏まえて新しい道に進まなければならないと説かれた。劇作家ビルタNikolai Evgen’evich Virta(1906‐76)らによって定式化されたこの理論は，1952年に共産党機関紙《プラウダ》によって批判されたが，問題は劇作にかぎらず，この理論が，ジダーノフ批判以後，現実の否定面を描くことを恐れ，現実を美化してきたソ連文芸の全般的傾向の集中的表現であった点にあった。ババエフスキーSemyon Petrovich Babaevskii(1909‐　)の《金星勲章の騎士》2巻(1947‐48)など，第2次大戦後のスターリン賞文学にこの傾向は共通していた。…

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