Author(s): Draginja Ramadanski / Language(s): Serbian
Issue: 3-4/2021
ln this paper we have tried to present the genealogy of sacral energy, conceived in Dostoevsky's early prose, which by inertia of the earlier interpretations, belongs to the Belinskian axiological circle (atheism, nihilism, anarchism, flirting with revolution). The paper presents a kind of development of Miodrag Pavlović's thesis on the desintegration of certain traditional cultural protocols, using the characteristics of the semantic ĥeld of the Russian verb to rewrite. The procedure of rewriting, namely, as an unconditional response to the meaning of the Other (including the Creator and his Creation), did not escape corruption. The enantiosemia of this Russian verb is capable to include everything (in a worshipping- but also in iconoclastic way). For that, we needed a different heaven-earth optics, that is, an unquestionable presumption of the writer's faith in Christ, which has difficulties in being realized in the world of historical reality. Even in Dostoevsky's debut, the odious love novel Poor Folk, the tautological nature of the title is revealed: people are generally poor, if not originaly then in the foundations of their own post-Eden existence. ln a never-ending relationship with Poor Folk, the novel The Village of Stepanchikovo again raises the questions about the essential drama of man. Rewriting, which in this sense is a strong coercion, necessarily breeds slip and wit, denying and undermining subordination/fascination with the style of the original. How to save one's own divinity, against the onslaught of social darwinism, how to remain exemplary (good and beautiful) if there is no God, if everything is allowed?
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