Siberian Federal University 
- Issue
- Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2013 6 (4)
- Authors
- Bryukhanova, Yulia M.
- Contact information
- Bryukhanova, Yulia M.: Irkutsk State University, 1 Karl Marx Str., Irkutsk, 664003 Russia; e-mail:
- Keywords
- Russian literature; Boris Pasternak; novel “Doctor Zhivago”; concept of “beauty”
- Abstract
Beauty for Boris Pasternak is linked to nature images, female images, and art aspects. In Pasternak’s works all these concepts are made closer on the basis of perception of vitality, life energy – a starting point in every system of poet’s art and philosophy worlds. However, we find it important to consider the way the theme of beauty is interpreted in the system of male images as the given analysis allows us to create a whole perception of philosophy and poetic category of beauty appearing in images and artistic context of Pasternak’s works. The beauty concept in Pasternak’s view is deprived of monosemanticity, it can be reached through correlation of antinomic qualities and features. Internal antinomies are expressed in a formal structure of works, in particular, in the novel “Doctor Zhivago”. In this novel immanent characteristics of the beauty concept are explicitly expressed in a system of male characters, thus, being one of criteria of opposition: Yuri Zhivago, Yevgraf – Komarovsky, Antipov-Strel’nikov. It is the antinomy of “performed” and “performing” beauty. According to the concept of “beauty” in Pasternak’s creative work the source of beauty is life. But not in every case the beauty itself can be the source of life – and it is the major specific feature of Pasternak’s notions about the beautiful. The extend of life forces survival in the world gives a rise to opposition of “performed” and “performing” beauty. The “performed” beauty is life energy presented in a form but stopped in its creative development, while the “performing” beauty is life energy initiating a creative potential.
- Pages
- 508-513
- Paper at repository of SibFU
- https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/9714
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