{"title":"Motifs of Apocalypse in I. S. Shmelev's novel “Sun of the dead”","authors":"J. Dohnal, I. Cintula","doi":"10.51762/1fk-2022-27-01-14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51762/1fk-2022-27-01-14","url":null,"abstract":"to the Civil War in Russia as one of the most critical periods in Russian history. The text of the work, considered by the authors of the article to be an expression of “a story told”, thematizes, for example, the relationship between the Bolsheviks and the Church, the purposeful destruction of the intelligentsia, the use of hunger as a tool of the population control, the barbaric treatment of the civilian population, the disrespect for the workers on whose behalf the Bolsheviks incited the revolution and the depreciation of human life and material wealth. The novel also accuses Europe of having idly watched the destruction of the remnants of old Russia. The analysis is based mainly on historical and comparative methods, with the help of which the text of the work is associated with historical events, on the one hand, and with the biblical New Testament text, primarily with the “Revelation to St. John”, on the other. The analysis carried out shows that the writer’s creative plan is based on the belief that the Civil War represents the end of one era, which is primarily shown in the signs that can be associated with the images of biblical horsemen who bring destruction. The comparative analysis confirms that in his novel, Shmelev touches on the motifs found in the Bible. In the text of the novel, special attention is paid to the motif of the end and the themes of destruction and annihilation, which are considered universal by the biblical text. Shmelev’s almost documentary text depicts them as phenomena characterizing the dangerous sprouts of a new way of life in post-revolutionary Russia. At the end of the article, the main conclusions are formulated, which are based on the opinion that Shmelev managed to include both the structure and the thematic elements of the biblical text in the novel “The Sun of the Dead”, building the novel as a stylized, updated version of the apocalypse. The text under consideration can be viewed both as “evidence” and as a historical document, which, from the point of view of an eyewitness acting in the person of the narrator, reflects the process of the formation of Soviet power in Crimea in connection with a more widely understood historical context, both Russian and European K e y w o r d s : Russian literature; Russian writers; literary creative activity; literary genres; literary motifs; literary plots; novels; civil war; Bible; apocalypse. F o r c i t a t i o n : Dohnal, J., Cintula, I. (2022). Motifs of Apocalypse in I. S. Shmelev’s Novel “Sun of the Dead”. In Philological Class. Vol. 27. No. 1, pp. 123-132. Творчество Ивана Сергеевича Шмелева (1873–1950) оставалось довольно долгое время вне серьезного внимания русского литературоведения. Причиной этому стала отрицательная позиция писателя по отношению к государственному строю, установившему свою власть в стране после 1917 года. Шмелев, как и много других писателей того времени, с радостью приветствовал Февральскую революцию 1917 г., которую он воспринял как реа","PeriodicalId":40343,"journal":{"name":"Philological Class","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78737358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The novel by V. F. Odoevsky “The year 4338: Petersburg letters” as an illustration of the idea of a new art","authors":"I. Kachkov","doi":"10.51762/1fk-2022-27-03-07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51762/1fk-2022-27-03-07","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40343,"journal":{"name":"Philological Class","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74211431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“hundred years HAVE passed...” formula of time and seme of memory","authors":"Ludmila Sproģe","doi":"10.51762/1fk-2022-27-01-04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51762/1fk-2022-27-01-04","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40343,"journal":{"name":"Philological Class","volume":"83 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87379983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The “Resonant space” of the Russian classic novel: N. S. Leskov’s “Neglected people” and F. M. Dostoevsky’s “The idiot”","authors":"O. Evdokimova, E. P. Samoylova","doi":"10.51762/1fk-2022-27-03-08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51762/1fk-2022-27-03-08","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40343,"journal":{"name":"Philological Class","volume":"70 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90490544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evolution of the image of the main character in B. Akunin's Fandorin cycle","authors":"Aleksandr Mikhailovitch Lobin","doi":"10.51762/1fk-2022-27-01-17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51762/1fk-2022-27-01-17","url":null,"abstract":"detective novels often referred to as Fandorin cycle, portrayed in the last underresearched novels All the World’s a Stage, The Black City and Not Saying Goodbye. A review of the studies of literary criticism and academic research on Akunin’s work has revealed that the basic principles of his poetics include intertextuality and the use of gamebased strategies. They enable the author to create a unique combination of historical detective novel and postmodern ironical novel. The novels of the cycle as a total make up a biographical plot reflecting the development of","PeriodicalId":40343,"journal":{"name":"Philological Class","volume":"53 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72952464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“The glass bead game” with Igor Volgin: a tv show about literature in modern culture","authors":"R. Krasilnikov","doi":"10.51762/1fk-2022-27-03-15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51762/1fk-2022-27-03-15","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40343,"journal":{"name":"Philological Class","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83182116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Travelogues of slovenian female writers and their themes","authors":"Anna G. Bodrova","doi":"10.51762/1fk-2022-27-03-11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51762/1fk-2022-27-03-11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40343,"journal":{"name":"Philological Class","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80452285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Results of the international scientific and poetic readings in memory of S. I. Kormilov (June 5, 2021)","authors":"O. Fedotov, A. Shelemova","doi":"10.51762/1fk-2022-27-01-25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51762/1fk-2022-27-01-25","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40343,"journal":{"name":"Philological Class","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88507377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}