STRATEGIES OF MYTH-MAKING IN THE HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE OF THE NOVEL “THE WANDERING JEW” BY S. HEYM

Abstract

S. Heym. Mythologizing strategies, trends, complexes of dominant myths, processes of transformations and creations of new models, coupled with the dynamics of spiritual and aesthetic search, determine the multi-genre nature of S. Heym’s novel “The Wandering Jew”. Its multi-level structure covers the genre elements of a historical-philosophical novel, a religious-historical novel, a myth / anti-myth novel, an apocryphal novel. The boundaries between these genre structures are