Художественная феноменология боли в произведениях Льва Толстого и Антона Чехова (Смерть Ивана Ильича — Палата № 6)
The phenomenology of pain in Leo Tolstoy’s and Anton Chekhov’s works (Death of Ivan Ilyich and Ward No.6)

Author(s): Natalia Kazmerchak
Subject(s): Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: The article constitutes an attempt at the comparative analysis of the works L. Tolstoy and A. Chekhov (Death of Ivan Ilyich and Ward No.6) from the perspective of artistic phenomenology. The problem of pain is considered, on the one hand, as a defining phenomenon of human psychophysical state, but on the other also, as the factor allowing the development of the spiritual sphere. The study, based on the assumption that the experience of pain constitutes being in a state of transition and activates the consciousness of a character providing the opportunity of seeing the essence of things, is to convince that the ideas of the aforementioned writers are still up to date, at the time of spiritual indifference and cultural phenomena simulation.

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