Border trends in M. Elizarov’s novel “Earth”
https://doi.org/10.26907/2074-0239-2022-69-3-195-201
Abstract
The article studies the works of modern Russian literature. Mikhail Elizarov’s novel “Earth” develops the theme of thanatological ideas about the world.
The purpose of the article is to consider border trends at different levels of the work (the level of the plot, the system of characters, the types of characters and the ways of their construction, and ideological and thematic levels).
The relevance of the study is due to the fact that, so far, the border phenomena have not been studied in the structure of the multi-semantic novel “Earth”.
For the first time, the article has examined the plot of the novel as the plot of the trials of the protagonist who comes into contact with Thanotos and comprehends the meaning of death. The term “border” is a loan translation from English meaning “a boundary”. As N. T. Rymar notes in “Poetics of the Border in Literature” (2016), “the border may interest us as a difference, as a phenomenon of exclusion or inclusion; as a frame, threshold or transition, as a limitation”; “borders are also thought of as social boundaries, boundaries of cultures, languages; boundaries in the mental domain”. Finally, the concep-
tion of border is used to analyze the phenomena of transgression, “a boundary situation”, “a border experience”. The category of “border” in Elizarov’s novel determines the form of the diegetic narrator and actualizes the “last” questions in the reader’s mind, modifying the work as a philosophical narrative.
About the Author
O. Shchegolkova
Samara State University of Social Sciences and Education
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Olga Vladimirovna Shchegolkova, Ph.D. in Philology, Associate Professor
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Samara
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For citations:
Shchegolkova O. Border trends in M. Elizarov’s novel “Earth”. Philology and Culture. 2022;(3):195-201. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.26907/2074-0239-2022-69-3-195-201
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