Studia Litterarum Studia Litterarum 2500-4247 IWL RAS https://doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2025-10-3-406-433 Research Article Articles N.A. Teffi’s Works in the Newspaper Context: Svobodnye Mysli (Paris, 1920–1921) Nikolaev Dmitry D. red@studlit.ru September 25, 2025 2025 June 12, 2023 The article analyzes the works of N.A. Teffi, published in 1920–1921 in the Paris newspaper Svobodnye Mysli. Taffy followed the traditions laid down during her collaboration in the Svobodnye Mysli in St. Petersburg in 1907–1908, and at the same time changed her works, reacting to current events. The article examines Teffi’s works both in the context of newspaper publications and in a broader literary, journalistic, and historical context. In the first issues, Teffi continues to “fictionalizing” current news topics, creating fiction images, and not direct journalism. But starting from the fifth issue, the publicist intention prevails in Teffi’s works published in the Svobodnye Mysli. Identification and at the same time distance between the author’s “I” and the first person’s voice become one of the important features of Teffi’s poetics in the first years of emigration. Before the revolution, self-irony rather helped to merge the author’s and narrative “I,” and in emigration sarcasm prevents such identification. Teffi feuilleton literature of emigration Russian Paris Svobodnye Mysli comic satire Copyright © 2026, IWL RAS 2026 1. 1 Domogatskaia, E.G. “ʽV nashe vremia dlia mnogikh normal’nee umeret’, chem zhit’’: N.A. Teffi i russkii Parizh v 1945–1947 gg. (po materialam gazety ʽRusskie novosti’)” [“ʽNowadays It Is More Normal for Many to Die Than to Live’: N.A. Teffi and Russian Paris in 1945–1947 (Based on the Materials of the Newspaper ʽRusskie Novosti’)”]. Tvorchestvo N.A. Teffi i russkii literaturnyi protsess pervoi poloviny XX veka [N.A. Teffi’s Works and the Russian Literary Process of the First Half of the 20th Century]. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., Nasledie Publ., 1999, pp. 200–209. (In Russ.) 2. 2 Nikolaev, D.D. “Arkadii Averchenko” [“Arkady Averchenko”]. Russkaia literatura 1920–1930-kh godov: Portrety prozaikov [Russian Literature of the 1920s–1930s: Portraits of Prose Writers], vol. 1, book 1. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2016, pp. 882–947. (In Russ.) 3. 3 Nikolaev, D.D. “Veselaia karusel’ (N.A. Teffi v ʽRusskom Slove’)” [“Merry-go-round (N.A. Taffy in the ʽRusskoe Slovo’ Newspaper”)]. Teffi, N.A. Sobranie sochinenii [Collected Works], vol. 5: Karusel’ [Merry-go-round]. Moscow, Lakom Publ., 2000, pp. 5–22. (In Russ.) 4. 4 Nikolaev, D.D. “Istoriia odnogo gorodka” [“The History of a Town”]. Teffi, N.A. Sobranie sochinenii [Collected Works], vol. 3: Gorodok [Town]. Moscow, Lakom Publ., 1999, pp. 5–16. (In Russ.) 5. 5 Nikolaev, D.D. “N.A. Teffi i russkie periodicheskie izdaniia v Chekhoslovakii” [“N.A. Teffi and Russian Periodicals in Czechoslovakia”]. Tvorchestvo N.A. Teffi i russkii literaturnyi protsess pervoi poloviny XX veka [N.A. Teffi’s Works and the Russian Literary Process of the First Half of the 20th Century]. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., Nasledie Publ., 1999, pp. 111–147. (In Russ.) 6. 6 Nikolaev, D.D. “Poetika tvorchestva I.A. Bunina 1920–1923 gg.” [“Poetics of I.A. Bunin’s Works. 1920–1923”]. Literatura russkogo zarubezh’ia. 1920–1940. Pisatel’ v literaturnom protsesse (K 150-letiiu so dnia rozhdeniia I.A. Bunina) [Literature of the Russian Exile. 1920–1940. Writer in Literary Process (To the 150th Anniversary of I.A. Bunin’s Birth)]. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2022, pp. 683–767. https://doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0685-7-683-767 (In Russ.), 7. 7 Nikolaev, D.D. “Transformatsiia ʽkomizma normy’ v literature russkoi emigratsii: stolknovenie kul’turnykh identichnostei v proizvedeniiakh N.A. Teffi 1920 g.” [“Transformation of the ʽComic Norm’ in the Literature of Russian Emigration: The Clash of Cultural Identities in N.A. Teffi’s Works of (1920)”]. Imaginationen von Transkulturalitдt und Geschlecht: Identitдtsnarrative in sьd- und ostslawistischen Kontexten. Festschrift fьr Renate Hansen-Kokoruš, Hrsg. von Ingeborg Jandl, Goran Lazičić, Marizela Reithofer Bektić und Dijana Simić. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 2021, pp. 171–188. (Die Welt der Slaven: Sammelbande. 66) (In Russ.) 8. 8 Rybinskaia, N.V. N.A. Teffi — publitsist gazety “Poslednie novosti”: 1920–1940: dissertatsiia na soiskanie uchenoi stepeni kandidata filologicheskikh nauk [N.A. Teffi — Publicist of the Newspaper “Poslednie Novosti”: 1920–1940: PhD Dissertation]. Moscow, 2005. 205 p. (In Russ.) 9. 9 Haber, Edythe. Smeiushchaiasia vopreki: Zhizn’ i tvorchestvo Teffi [Laughing in Contrary: The Life and Works of Teffi]. Boston, St. Petersburg, Bibliorossika Publ., 2021. 408 p. (In Russ.) 10. 10 Haber, Edythe. Teffi: A Life of Letters and of Laughter. London, New York, I.B. Tauris, 2018. 288 p. (In English)