NOMADIZAM DOKTORA PLATONA IL’IČA GARINA
NOMADISM OF DOCTOR PLATO ILYICH GARIN
Author(s): Jasmina VojvodićSubject(s): Customs / Folklore, Russian Literature, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure
Published by: Институт за етнологију и антропологију
Keywords: nomadism; journey; Vladimir Sorokin; snowstorm;
Summary/Abstract: This paper analyses Sorokin’s novella The Snowstorm (Метель, 2010) from the viewpoint of nomadism. During winter, the hero of the story, doctor Plato Ilyich Garin (Платон Ильич Гарин) travels to the village of Dolgoye, carrying a special vaccine that is suppose to help those who are infected with the Bolivian fever. Besides the classical travelling during a snowstorm (references to the so-called "blizzard stories" in Russian literature are quite pronounced) the also novella offers other forms of "journeys". It is the dream of Plato Ilyich during freezing that we can read as a heterotopia (Foucault) and a "journey" into a hallucinatory state using a pyramidal product. The coexistence of several levels of journeys leads to nomadism.
Journal: Antropologija
- Issue Year: 13/2013
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 89-101
- Page Count: 13
- Language: Croatian