„Moc bowiem w słabości się doskonali” – wizerunek matki w neosentymentalnym opowiadaniu Счастливые Ludmiły Ulickiej
“Strength is made perfect in weakness” – image of a mother in a neosentimental short story The Happy by Ludmila Ulitskaya

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to approach a way by which the author construes semantisation of the mother-woman in a mythological-biblical manner, taking into account a neosentimental context of poetics of the analysed text, including the basic motif of the text which is a child’s death. Apart from that, we are referring to an archetypical image of a woman present in Russian folkloristic tradition as well as in a classical 19th century one, especially the image of “a little man”. A basic idea of the short story is not only a description of a tragic calamity, but also, in connection with the text being situated in the aforementioned tradition and its traits of dialogue with it, adding new contents, a proposal of their new interpretation, mainly considering a mother’s image.

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