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Семантика природных стихий в „Школе для дураков” Саши Соколова
Semantics of natural elements in Sasha Sokolov’s story “A School for Fools”

Author(s): Bożena Żejmo
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Philology
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: natural elements; air; earth; freedom; death; eschatology

Summary/Abstract: The objective of this article is to analyse two classical elements: the air (the wind) and the earth in Sasha Sokolov's novel A School for Fools. The antithesis of the elements creates a symbolic space in a text, which the author interprets as a confrontation of freedom (the air) with the Soviet enslavement system (the earth). In this fight, it is the wind that exhibits more power as a destructive force, bringing an eschatological sense to the text.

  • Issue Year: 44/2019
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 211-220
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Russian