ПАРАДОКС «БЕГСТВА ИЗ РАЯ» В РУССКОЙ СЛОВЕСНОСТИ
THE PARADOX OF “ESCAPE FROM PARADISE” IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the study is the motif of unauthorized “escape from Paradise”, as the one opposing to the motif of “exile from Paradise”, common in Western literature. Considering two asynchronical samples — of the manifestations of this motif (in A. N. Ostrovsky’s play “The Forest” and in the fairy-tale by K. N. Batyushkov “A Wanderer and a Stay-at-home”), the author comes to the observation that it appeared as a romantic opposition to sentimental separation between “sustainable” and “moving” life: the poetry of sentimentalism favored the value of the “sustainable” position, whereas the supporters of romanticism saw the “movement” as the key sign, which later took paradoxical forms, giving new opportunities for developing national psychology of the Russian person and opposing the ideology of former Russian literature.

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