Evolution of a topos of Russia-home in ‘the Red Wheel’ by Alexander Solzhenitsyn Cover Image

Ewolucja obrazu Rosji-domu w Czerwonym Kole Aleksandra Sołżenicyna
Evolution of a topos of Russia-home in ‘the Red Wheel’ by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Author(s): Monika Sidor
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Russian Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: symbol; homeland; Russia; revolution

Summary/Abstract: The paper depicts a topos of Russia-home in Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s novel cycle the ‘Red Wheel’. The author defines metaphoric pictures named as a home, an empty house, a house without an owner. The metaphors allows to indicate additional motifs connected with titular topos: a good host, a woman as a wife and mother and a fake host. The analyses show that Solzhenitsyn’s metaphors of Russia-home reflect writer’s conception of the revolutionary process in the history of Russia and his thoughts about citizen responsibility and patriotism.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 19
  • Page Range: 203-215
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish