2018 №4 (61) Article 17

V.V. Guskov

THE THEME OF THE BYGONE RUSSIA IN A.I. SOLZHENITSYN’S EARLY WORKS. P.P. 163-168.

UDC 821.161.1-3.09«19»

 

Analyzing cross-cutting themes, motifs and images, we are able to understand A.I. Solzhenitsyn’s artistic manner of writing, his aesthetic and fundamental principles. One of the cross-cutting images in A.I. Solzhenitsyn’s works is the image of the bygone Russia. In his novel “In the First Circle”,
A.I. Solzhenitsyn reveals his ideas on Russian history, which are further developed in his later works, through a discussion of P.Korin’s picture “Bygone Russia”. The images of bygone Russia can be found in earlier works by Solzhenitsyn, in his poem “Little Road”, in other poems written during his incarceration and in his first published short stories “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” and “Matrena’s Home”. Comparing in his early works the past and the desolate present, Solzhenitsyn attempts to understand what is lost and why. The images of the bygone Russia which appear in the writer’s early works are not mere sketches but are means to express the writer’s historiosophical ideas.

“In the First Circle”; “Little Road”; historiosophy; labor camp poetry; “Matrena’s Home”; “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich”; poetics; Russian literature; Solzhenitsyn; theme; bygone Russia; aesthetic principles

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