Article

Name: Vagrancy Motive in the Gender Aspect of Russian Literature of the 1920s

Authors: Lyudmila P. Yakimova

Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation

In the section The Plot, Motive, Genre

Abstract:

The content of the article is a comparative analysis of the stories in Vs. Ivanov’s “The Life of Smokotinin”, L. Leonov’s “The Tramp”, A. Platonov’s novella “The Potudan River”, united by the authors’ common attention to the motive of vagrancy. The article considers the general structuring of the text, the similarity and overlap in the use of artistic means, in this case, first of all, the poetic and semantic potential of the parable of the prodigal son. In the theoretical aspect, the potential involvement of the consideration of works with this kind of motive-plot connections as an integral literary cycle is revealed.

Keywords: comparative analysis, story Ivanov’s “The Life of Smokotinin”, L. Leonov’s story “The Tramp”, A. Platonov’s story “The Potudan River”, the motive of vagrancy, the parable-gospel code, the intentions of the literary cycle

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