Mit o Jerozolimie. Powieść Jelizawiety Michailiczenko i Jurija Nesisa I/e_rus.olim
The Myth of Jerusalem. A Novel by Yelizaveta Mikhailichenko and Yuri Nesis I/e_rus.olim
Author(s): Mirosława Michalska-SuchanekSubject(s): Cultural history, Customs / Folklore, Jewish Thought and Philosophy, Russian Literature, Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej
Keywords: Russian-Israeli literature; cultural transformation; Jewish identity; myth; Jerusalem; Yelizaveta Mikhailichenko; Yuri Nesis;
Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt to analyze a novel titled I/e_rus.olim (2003), written by two representatives of Russian-language literature in Israel – Yelizaveta Mikhailichenko and Yuri Nesis. Their prose reflects the complex process of the cultural transformation of repatriates from Russia and Soviet republics and the birth of national self-awareness in them. The key is the characters’ attempts to reach their own roots mainly by decoding the cultural-semiotic dimension of the reality around them. The writing couple creates their own myth of Jerusalem, which compiles elements of the main “founding myths” on which Jewish identity is built, but does not directly adapt them, only provocatively increasing their complexity. Mikhailichenko and Nesis readily use the procedure of multiplication, which is a kind of modified figure of mise en abyme.
Journal: Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Skłodowska, sectio FF – Philologiae
- Issue Year: 41/2023
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 185-200
- Page Count: 16
- Language: Polish