Współczesna apokalipsa Ludmiły Ulickiej. O symbolice i wymiarze mądrościowym cyklu opowiadań "Шестью семь" („Sześć po siedem”)
Ludmila Ulitskaya’s Contemporary Apocalypse: On the Symbolicism and a Wisdom Dimension of the "Шестью семь" Cycle

Summary/Abstract: The study offers an analysis of the latest work of Ludmila Ulitskaya from the point of view of cognitive poetics, considering the conditions of the book’s publication, the situation of the recipients’ first encounter with the Шестью семь cycle and associations related to the author’s current activity. Ulitskaya is among the most recognizable authors of contemporary Russian literature, and her emigration from the country which started a war is perceived as a political and moral declaration. This has led to some new ways of reading her works published after leaving Russia. In this article, the symbols contained in the plots of short stories and the structure of the cycle form the basis for the interpretation of the apocalyptic sense implied in the work. The author of the study states that the specific narrative, resembling Olga Tokarczuk’s concept of “the tender narrator” and including some traits close to the Eastern tradition of wisdom literature, strengthens the positive message of the work. Thus, the apocalyptic vision presented in the last part of Ulitskaya’s work opens to the eternal perspective and assumes waiting for salvation.

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