A happening as an event in Leo Tolstoy’s novels “Anna Karenina” and Fyodor Tyutchev’s “On the Rocks and Valleys of Dagestan”
https://doi.org/10.26907/2074-0239-2021-64-2-187-193
Abstract
The article conducts a comparative analysis of the two novels, named in the title of the article, in the context of understanding a happening as an event in the lives of the characters. In our approach, we proceed from the idea that both writers in their novels about human fates present things, happening in their characters’ living situations, as existential comprehension of an event. Events, comprehended as acts of man, are the essence of his life – that is the main philosophical thought of both novels. We solve the identified problem based on the notion “family”. A textual analysis of the two novels enables us to understand that at the critical moments of our existence, family brings about the need to realize one of several supposed possibilities. These possibilities depend both on deterministic volitional decisions of man, striving for the linear development of his life, and on accidental events, which, being on the “threshold”, may become turning points. At the same time, in their novels, Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Tyutchev showed that only man himself and his creative power are true reasons for generating events in his real life. This is mostly found in critical bifurcation situations of human life.
About the Authors
F. Sultanbekov
Kazan Federal University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Foat Faritovich Sultanbekov, Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics, Associate Professor, free researcher
420108
18 Kremlyovskaya Str.
Kazan
A. Sayapova
Kazan Federal University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Albina Mazgarovna Sayapova, Doctor of Philology, Professor
420108
18 Kremlyovskaya Str.
Kazan
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Review
For citations:
Sultanbekov F., Sayapova A. A happening as an event in Leo Tolstoy’s novels “Anna Karenina” and Fyodor Tyutchev’s “On the Rocks and Valleys of Dagestan”. Philology and Culture. 2021;(2):187-193. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.26907/2074-0239-2021-64-2-187-193
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