Who's holding up the sky?: On rymba, a novel by a. bushkovsky
The article deals with A. Bushkovsky's novel Rymba that goes beyond the topics typical of Russian North prose. Rather than limiting himself to admiring nature and Russian character, the author portrays the northern Russian village of Rymba in the larger context of the country's mentality,...
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ftrudnuniv:oai:repository.rudn.ru:r/76391 2023-05-15T18:07:52+02:00 Who's holding up the sky?: On rymba, a novel by a. bushkovsky Zhuchkova A.V. https://repository.rudn.ru/records/article/record/76391/ RU rus Автономная некоммерческая организация Редакция журнала критики и литературоведения Вопросы литературы https://doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2020-1-150-158 https://repository.rudn.ru/records/article/record/76391/ Вопросы литературы A. Bushkovsky Christianity Gender Russian North prose Rymba The Russian world Village prose Article ftrudnuniv https://doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2020-1-150-158 2022-01-03T09:51:24Z The article deals with A. Bushkovsky's novel Rymba that goes beyond the topics typical of Russian North prose. Rather than limiting himself to admiring nature and Russian character, the author portrays the northern Russian village of Rymba in the larger context of the country's mentality, history, mythology, and gender politics. In the novel, myth clashes with reality, history with the present day, and an individual with the state. The critic draws a comparison between the novel and the traditions of village prose and Russian North prose. In particular, Bushkovsky's Rymba is discussed alongside V. Rasputin's Farewell to Matyora [Proshchanie s Matyoroy] and R. Senchin's The Flood Zone [Zona zatopleniya]. The novel's central question is: what keeps the Russian world afloat? Depicting the Christian faith as such a bulwark, Bushkovsky links atheism with the social and spiritual roles played by contemporary men and women. The critic argues, however, that the reliance on Christianity in the novel verges on an affectation. The book's main symbol is a drowning hawk: It perishes despite people's efforts to save it. © 2020, A. V. Zhuchkova. Article in Journal/Newspaper Russian North Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN): Open repository Bulwark ENVELOPE(163.550,163.550,-78.283,-78.283) Voprosy literatury 1 1 150 158 |
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The article deals with A. Bushkovsky's novel Rymba that goes beyond the topics typical of Russian North prose. Rather than limiting himself to admiring nature and Russian character, the author portrays the northern Russian village of Rymba in the larger context of the country's mentality, history, mythology, and gender politics. In the novel, myth clashes with reality, history with the present day, and an individual with the state. The critic draws a comparison between the novel and the traditions of village prose and Russian North prose. In particular, Bushkovsky's Rymba is discussed alongside V. Rasputin's Farewell to Matyora [Proshchanie s Matyoroy] and R. Senchin's The Flood Zone [Zona zatopleniya]. The novel's central question is: what keeps the Russian world afloat? Depicting the Christian faith as such a bulwark, Bushkovsky links atheism with the social and spiritual roles played by contemporary men and women. The critic argues, however, that the reliance on Christianity in the novel verges on an affectation. The book's main symbol is a drowning hawk: It perishes despite people's efforts to save it. © 2020, A. V. Zhuchkova. |
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