Evolution of a topos of Russia-home in ‘the Red Wheel’ by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Monika Sidor
Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II, Wydział Nauk Humanistycznych, Katedra Literatury Rosyjskiej, Ukraińskiej i BiałoruskiejThe paper depicts a topos of Russia-home in Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s novel cycle the ‘Red Wheel’. The author defines metaphoric pictures named as a home, an empty house, a house without an owner. The metaphors allows to indicate additional motifs connected with titular topos: a good host, a woman as a wife and mother and a fake host. The analyses show that Solzhenitsyn’s metaphors of Russia-home reflect writer’s conception of the revolutionary process in the history of Russia and his thoughts about citizen responsibility and patriotism.
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Abstract
The paper depicts a topos of Russia-home in Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s novel cycle the ‘Red Wheel’. The author defines metaphoric pictures named as a home, an empty house, a house without an owner. The metaphors allows to indicate additional motifs connected with titular topos: a good host, a woman as a wife and mother and a fake host. The analyses show that Solzhenitsyn’s metaphors of Russia-home reflect writer’s conception of the revolutionary process in the history of Russia and his thoughts about citizen responsibility and patriotism.
Keywords:
symbol, homeland, Russia, revolutionKatolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II, Wydział Nauk Humanistycznych, Katedra Literatury Rosyjskiej, Ukraińskiej i Białoruskiej
The paper depicts a topos of Russia-home in Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s novel cycle the ‘Red Wheel’. The author defines metaphoric pictures named as a home, an empty house, a house without an owner. The metaphors allows to indicate additional motifs connected with titular topos: a good host, a woman as a wife and mother and a fake host. The analyses show that Solzhenitsyn’s metaphors of Russia-home reflect writer’s conception of the revolutionary process in the history of Russia and his thoughts about citizen responsibility and patriotism.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8290-8682
