Dialog z klasyką. Sonieczka Ludmiły Ulickiej i Sonia Tatiany Tołstoj
A Dialogue with the Classics. Lyudmila Ulitskaya’s “Sonechka” and Tatyana Tolstaya’s “Sonya”

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the present article is to analyse the intertextual contexts invoked by the titles of two works: Tatyana Tolstaya’s Sonia and Lyudmila Ulitskaya’s Sonechka. The name of the protagonists on the one hand refers the reader to the ideal of Sophia – the Eternal Feminine, which appeared in Russian culture through the influence exerted by the philosophy of Vladimir Solovyov, and on the other hand invokes the model of femininity that appeared in Russian literature primarily thanks to Sonya Marmeladov, who embodies humility, kindness, forgiveness, and the ready embrace of suffering. Juxtaposing these two images in the works analysed creates an interesting dialogue within the philosophical-literary tradition.

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