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 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.


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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, revolution


Published
2019-11-22


Sidor, M. (2019) “Evolution of a topos of Russia-home in ‘the Red Wheel’ by Alexander Solzhenitsyn”, Studia Wschodniosłowiańskie, 19, pp. 203–215. doi: 10.15290/sw.2019.19.15.

Monika Sidor 
Katolicki 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