Siberian Federal University

Issue

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2018 11 (3)

Authors

Turysheva, Olga N.

Contact information

Turysheva, Olga N.: Ural Federal University named after the First President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin 51 Lenina, Ekaterinburg, 620083, Russia;

Keywords

M. Yelizarov; “Librarian”; W. von Eschenbach; Parzival; the Grail archetype; the myth about literature’s salutariness; the Soviet aesthetics

Abstract

The article is devoted to identification of an archetypic basis of the novel of M. Yelizarov “Librarian”. She contacts the medieval myth about Holy Grail. Numerous similarities between W. von Eschenbach’s novel “Parzival” and the novel of the modern Russian writer are found. The conducted observations have helped to identify semantic functions of the ancient layer in the contemporary narrative. Comparing the books by D. Gromov (a Soviet writer) with the Grail, the modern novelist deconstructs the Soviet myth about the literature’s salutariness, insisting on inhuman pathos of the biblio-idea of the Soviet culture. The drawn conclusions allow clarifying the disputes on Yelizarov’s novel and also to raise an ideological question of the literature’s and reading’s sacralization – both in the Soviet period and in the present time. In the latter, this tendency is found in the popular literature telling us about the reader and also about advantage of reading in a sci-journalistic discourse. The explanation of this tendency is suggested as well

Pages

492-498

Paper at repository of SibFU

https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/70758

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