«FRIEND OR FOE» «PAN OLENSKY»: REVISION OF THE IMAGE OF ETERNAL OUTSIDER IN THE STORY BY R. ZIMMERMAN

Abstract

The article examines the actualization of the literary opposition «friend-foe» in the story of Reinhold Zimmerman «Pan Olensky» (“Mister Olensky). Zimmerman, using the life story of a captive Pole, forced by fate to live in Siberia at the end of the XIX century, shows how the traditional for Russian literature image of the «eternal outsider» transformed, turning a «foe» into a «friend».