Мотив болезни в романе Михаила Шишкина Взятие Измаила
The motive of the disease in the novel The Taking of Izmail by Mikhail Shishkin

Summary/Abstract: Mikhail Shishkin’s novels form a complex system of artistic motives. One of the most obvious is the motive of the disease. This paper is dedicated to the analysis of this motive in the novel The Taking of Izmail. The narrative motive of the disease is manifested at different levels of the text structure: the plot (illness as the cause of character’s action and, respectively, as the “engine” of the plot), the character (almost all heroes of the novel suffer a lot), the chronotope (repeatability and “interchangeability” of time and space is concerned with the motive of the disease). In addition, the motive of the disease is incorporated in the complex of motives associated with life and death. It allows us to talk about the gradual development of the artistic concept of Mikhail Shishkin from The Taking of Izmail to the subsequent novels.

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