Horatian quotes in Ivan Turgenev's correspondence

The article provides an overview of the Latin quotes from Horace’s works used by Turgenev in his correspondence. The significance of such epistolary genre for the Russian writer has long been recognized by the researchers of his literary heritage. The study of Turgenev’s correspondence largely allows us to understand the philosophy and methodology of his works. In this context such usage of Horatian quotes by I. Turgenev in his letters demonstrates both Ivan Sergeevich’s deep knowledge of the Roman literature and, due to the detection of intertextual relations, reveals multiple potential sources of certain images, ideas, allusions and reminiscences. Fitting into the concept of intertextuality, quotations actively function in the discursive field being one of the binding components of linguistic, communicative, textual, philosophical, and aesthetic layers of the text. The review of Horatian quotes showed that citation of Horace’s texts has different purposes - some are anonymous names/title- quotes, others (presenting a much greater interest for the research from the stand point of poetics) become some kind of conceptual/semantic correlations between cultural epochs of Roman antiquity and Russian literature of the 19th century.