Животное в художественном мире новейшей русской литературы
Animal in the Artistic World of Modern Russian Literature

Author(s): Alfia Smirnova
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: animal; nature; prose; zoomorphism;symbol;
Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes the works of Russian literature of the twentieth century in which the animal has a central position and determines the author’s artistic concept (The Cow by Andrei Platonov, Farewell, Gulsary, The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years, Scaffold by Chingiz Aitmatov, King‑fish by Victor Astaf’ev, Rabbits and Boa Constrictors by Fazil Iskander, The Squirrel by Anatoly Kim). The article defines the meaning‑generating and poetic function of their images. It identifies the main aspects of their interpretation: the animal as a victim of the human actions, animal as an alter ego of a principal character, as a symbol of nature, as mythopoetical, conventionally metaphorical, allegorical image.

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