The Evil in Viyˮ: Patterning of the World and the Text

The article argues that the artistic space of the novella “Viy”, unlike the normal picture of the world, is characterized by deformed connections between the world elements. This observation is applicable to yoking together of the disjunctive (including polar opposites) and to tearing apart of the inseparable. The latter is represented in the novella, for instance, as a violent separation of the soul from the body. The dismissing of the boundaries between the opposites results in changing tension between life and death, as well as between the aggressor and the victim, who perish only when joined together. To “Viy&8j1;, the Pushkin so-called ‘sculptural myth’ seems to be relevant, when the alive is deadened and the dead is enlivened. In passing, we make observations concerning motifs of utterance and of glance present in “Viy&8j1;.

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structural deformation, sculptural myth, metonymy, a word and a glance

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10.12.2018

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12.12.2018

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GOST	Zaslavskii O. The Evil in “Viyˮ: Patterning of the World and the Text // Izvestiia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka – 2018. – V. 77. – Issue 5 C. 37-51 [Electronic resource]. URL: https://izv-oifn.ru/S241377150002549-6-1 (circulation date: 02.05.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S241377150002549-6
MLA	Zaslavskii, Oleg B "The Evil in “Viyˮ: Patterning of the World and the Text." Izvestiia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka 77.5 (2018):37-51. DOI: 10.31857/S241377150002549-6
APA	Zaslavskii O. (2018). The Evil in “Viyˮ: Patterning of the World and the Text. Izvestiia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka 77(5), pp.37-51 DOI: 10.31857/S241377150002549-6

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