Siberian Federal University 
- Issue
- Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2018 11 (3)
- Authors
- Zagidulina, Tatiana A.
- Contact information
- Zagidulina, Tatiana A.: Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University named after V.P. Astafyev 89 Ada Lebedeva Str., Krasnoyarsk, 660049, Russia;
- Keywords
- Sofia; Sophiological motives; gnosticism; myth; socialist realism; utopia
- Abstract
This article is devoted to analysis of philosophy underlying the figurative and narrative structure of the novel “Moskva-kva-kva” by V. Aksyonov. This piece belongs to the latest stage of the writer’s creative evolution, which means a certain structure of the text, designed in the socio-historical and philosophical discourse, specific for this period. Since the modernist aesthetic dominant prevails in the novel, and Russian modernism is mostly guided by the Russian religious philosophy, it is rational to consider the text within the same paradigm. The subject of study is the representation and functioning of Sophian features in the main character of the novel, Glykeria Novotkannaya. This research studies the Sophiological motives of “Moskva-kva-kva”, their functioning in the context of post-apocalyptic emptiness presented by the text. The article reveals the main components of Glyka’s image: duality, ethereality, features of the Virgin; it shows the image embedded into the scenically syncretic novel structure, functioning in various mythological patterns the text is based on. The author arrives at the conclusion, that in the narrative, expressive and figurative, mystical aspects, the writer sees no way for Russia to escape from the post-apocalyptic emptiness, impossible to fill with anything, ever. The impossibility of the Messiah function to be performed in Russia, the impossibility of it to become a utopia that came true is explained by the return of Sophia-Glyka to her origin
- Pages
- 499-510
- Paper at repository of SibFU
- https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/70759
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