«СПАСИТЕЛЬНИЦА ОТЕЧЕСТВА» ВИКТОРА СОСНОРЫ: ПРОБЛЕМАТИКА И СИСТЕМА СТРУКТУРООБРАЗУЮЩИХ ЭЛЕМЕНТОВ
“SPASITELNITSA OTECHESTVA” (“THE SAVIOR OF THE FATHERLAND”) BY VICTOR SOSNORA: THE MAIN ISSUES AND THE SYSTEM OF STRUCTURE-FORMING ELEMENTS

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the composition and motivic structure of V. Sosnora’s narrative “Spasitelnitsa otechestva” (“The Savior of the Fatherland”), which received controversial reviews from critics and has not been the subject of serious analysis yet. We prove that the writer’s unconventional principles of historical narration are based on the idea of the fundamental variability of history. The comparison of the text with the memoirs illustrates the peculiarities of Sosnora’s methods of working with historical documents, such as subjective interpretation, polemics, and pointing out the details which might become the basis of the symbols. The methods of creating images and the explication of the author’s evaluation of the main characters-antagonists (Peter III and Catherine II) are revealed with the help of the motives of eating, clothing and theater.

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