Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / The Truth of the Literary Past: (on the Issue of the Narrative Peculiarity in A. Solzhenitsyn’s Epic ‘The Red Wheel’)

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Issue
Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2015 8 (7)
Authors
Sidor, Monika
Contact information
Sidor, Monika:The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin 14 Al. Raclawickie, 20-950 Lublin, Poland; E-mail:
Keywords
artistic method; vision of an artist; history in literature; truth
Abstract

The present article tackles the artistic method used by Solzhenitsyn in his work “The Red Wheel”. The starting point for consideration is the writer’s statement that this work of art is not an ordinary historical novel and it realizes totally exceptional artistic goals. The author of the article proposes to analyze some of Solzhenitsyn’s theoretical explanations, which might have affected the specific character of the world presented in “The Red Wheel”. The research of those explanations makes it possible to figure out certain parallels between the concept of artistic perception of Solzhenitsyn’s world and classical reflections on the subject of tasks of literature and the role of an artist. An exceptional role in this system of literary values is played by the truth of literature understood as authentic historical evidence, and a writer who takes on the role of a historian and is aimed at finding the meaning of historical events

Pages
1436-1442
Paper at repository of SibFU
https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/19686

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