Wampiryzm — choroba — wynaturzenie we współczesnej literaturze rosyjskiej
The Vampirism ‑ Illness — Degeneration in Contemporary Russian Literature

Author(s): Katarzyna Arciszewska
Subject(s): Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: The article The Vampirism — Illness — Degeneration in Contemporary Russian Literature presents the analyses of the vampire motives in the contemporary Russian novels, whose authors present the vampire motives in many aspects. The author of the article discusses the specific of the conception of the vampire’s types of Sergey Lukjanienko, Oleg Divov, Andrey Bielanin, Victor Pelevin, Sergey and Marina Diachenko and the motives connected with, such as illness, degeneration, deviation, epidemic. The author emphasizes the dissimilarity of the presentation of these motives relative to the traditional idea of the vampire presented in the rich literature about vampires.

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