Varia: Cebula i kapusta
Varia: Onion and Cabbage

Summary/Abstract: Inspired by the structure of the titular vegetables – one having an essence after having been stripped of the outer layers, the other deprived of it – the article proposes a re-reading of Russian literature from the opposing perspectives of the “cabbage paradigm” and the “onion paradigm.” The former is located in the realm of soviet metaphysics, while the latter reverberates with deeper philosophical inspirations in which the meaning is produced by void and chaos. Both paradigms are used as distinct interpretative perspectives and illustrated with relevant literary examples.

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