Mythological realism of Anatoly Kim as a construct of the schism Cover Image

Мифологический реализм Aнатолия Кима как конструкт схизиса
Mythological realism of Anatoly Kim as a construct of the schism

Author(s): Ludmila Safronova, Elmira Zhanysbekova
Subject(s): Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: A. Kim; myth; image; postmodernism; psychoanalytic literary criticism; schism

Summary/Abstract: The article, in the psychoanalytic and cognitive aspect explores the principle of constructing the poetics of a grotesque novel by Anatoly Kim “Centaur settlement”. The novel is based on the connection of the incompatible, the synthesis of contradictions, characteristic of the schizophrenic schism: namely, mythological realism, man/beast, nomad/agriculturist, hysteria/obsession, the Christian archetype of God – the punisher/rescuer, etc. The appeal to the author’s myth has the function of neutralizing oppositions, “escaping into health” – to a holistic worldview of a person and society.

  • Issue Year: IX/2018
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 139-152
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Russian
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