Między Wschodem a Zachodem. Filozoficzne inspiracje Michaiła Arcybaszewa w kontekście wątków tanatologicznych
BETWEEN EAST AND WEST MIKHAIL ARTSYBASHEV’S PHILOSOPHICAL INSPIRATIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF THANATOLOGICAL MOTIFS
Author(s): Patryk WitczakSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: M. Artsybashev; Russian emigration; death motif; F. Nitzsche; L. Tolstoy
Summary/Abstract: This article presents the motifs of death and illness in Mikhail Artsybashev’s prose, mainly froma philosophical perspective. His early short stories are compared to the style of Leo Tolstoy; beinginfluenced by the works of Friedrich Nietzsche and Fyodor Dostoevsky, they are filled with extremepessimism and immorality as well as the themes of hedonism and free-will of the individual.
Journal: Acta Neophilologica
- Issue Year: 2/2015
- Issue No: XVII
- Page Range: 175-184
- Page Count: 10
- Language: Polish