Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences: Gnostic Code in the Novel by L. Ulitskaya «Medea and Her Children»

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / Gnostic Code in the Novel by L. Ulitskaya «Medea and Her Children»

Issue: Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2012 5 (9)
Authors: Kovtun, Natalia V.
Contact information: Kovtun, Natalia V. : Siberian Federal University , 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041 Russia , e-mail:
Keywords: Ulitskaya; «Medea and Her Children»; myth; antiquity; Gnosticism; Sophia the Wisdom
Abstract: The present article is the analysis of poetics in the novel Medea and Her Children by L. Ulitskaya, that conceptualizes the earlier works of the author. It proves that the leading factor of understanding the text is its gnostic code that reflects the contemporary spirit, which actualizes the problem of the world evil. At the same time, the book is an intellectual game built up of the plots of world literature and art that highlight the characters fortune; a game made to initiate the reader, strengthen their ability to read between the lines. Post-modernistic poetics are replaced by hermeneutics, the trace of the truth can only be followed behind the text and behind the time; the author sustains the rights of private being of a personality, and only this way - from inside the home and from inside the soul, the mysteries of the creation begin to open up.
Pages: 1343-1356
Paper at repository of SibFU: https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/3036