The Native and the Universal in the “Dead Souls” by N. V. Gogol: A Parafrastic Context of Understanding
- Authors: Esaulov I.A.1
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Affiliations:
- The Maxim Gorky Literature Institute
- Issue: Vol 18, No 1 (2020)
- Pages: 175-210
- Section: Articles
- URL: https://bakhtiniada.ru/1026-9479/article/view/285855
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.15393/j9.art.2020.7322
- ID: 285855
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Abstract
Based on the material of “Dead Souls”, the problem of the correlation of the “native” and the “universal” is considered. The author of the article highlights the special paraphrastic aspect of the interpretation of Russian classical literature, which includes both Western European aesthetic landmarks and the Orthodox cultural tradition, emphasizing their interweaving and mutual influence. In this aspect, the need to restore the full version of the name of Gogol’s poem is argued. The semantics of the cover of a separate edition of “Dead Souls” is analyzed. The author traces the paraphrastic context of the poem, referring to Dante’s “Divine Comedy”, which does not come down to motives, reminiscences, plot coincidences, but actualizes the unified Christian meaning of the Easter end of the earthly path, interpreted differently within the framework of Catholic and Orthodox cultural traditions. The semantics of the final Easter transformation of the “native” horizontal of Russia into the spiritual vertical of holy Russia in “Dead Souls” is revealed.
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About the authors
Ivan A. Esaulov
The Maxim Gorky Literature Institute
Author for correspondence.
Email: jesaulov@yandex.ru
Doctor of Philology, Professor of the Department of Russian Classical Literature and Slavic Studies
Russian Federation, MoscowReferences
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