The New Body of the “Thaw” in Vasily Aksyonov’s Novella "Colleagues" and its Film Adaptation Cover Image

Новая телесность «oттепели» в повести В. Аксёнова "Kоллеги" и ее экранизации
The New Body of the “Thaw” in Vasily Aksyonov’s Novella "Colleagues" and its Film Adaptation

Author(s): Natalija Nyagolova
Subject(s): Literary Texts, Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: poetics; body; “Thaw”; sexuality; medical discourse

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on the concept of body representation in Vasily Aksyonov’s short novel Colleagues and in Aleksei Sakharov’s 1962 film of the same title. The new ways in which the body began to be represented during the “Thaw” are reported – its medicalization, eroticization, and electronization. The paper describes the three models of corporality from the novella and traces their transformations in the screen adaptation.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 13
  • Page Range: 213-221
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Russian
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