The Mythologem of the North in the Early Works of L.M. Leonov (on the Example of the Story “the Death of Egorushka”)

The article considers the creative implementation of the mythologem of the North in literature at the beginning of the 20th century. The general interest of artists and thinkers to the phenomenon of the myth, understanding of its profound energy, as well as the need for the myth as a spiritual suppo...

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Main Authors: Zadorina, Alena O., Задорина, А.О.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Сибирский федеральный университет. Siberian Federal University. 2014
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Online Access:https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/10362
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Summary:The article considers the creative implementation of the mythologem of the North in literature at the beginning of the 20th century. The general interest of artists and thinkers to the phenomenon of the myth, understanding of its profound energy, as well as the need for the myth as a spiritual support, are the typical features of the neomythologization process. Writers turn to the mythologem of the North not only because of the desire to find a new, unusual topic for narration, but also because of its typical heterogeneity, ambivalence, when there is a fine line between holiness and demonicity. In L.M. Leonov’s work, this controversy is preserved and even intensified, the place of faith becomes the place of universal desperation. The creative idea of the artist is explained not only by crisis moods of the beginning of the century, but also by social and political reforms of the new rule. The mythologem preserves unchangeable components: mythological space, mythological time, the image of a demiurge, a hero, motifs of challenge and initiation. An eschatological motif presented latently by the author, on the background of the continuing life, appears to be a new solution В статье рассмотрено художественное воплощение мифологемы Севера в литературе начала ХХ века. Общий интерес художников и мыслителей к явлению мифа, осознание его проникновенной энергии, а также потребность в мифе как в духовной опоре – характерные черты процесса неомифологизации. Обращение писателей к мифологеме Севера обусловлено не только желанием найти новую, непривычную тему для повествования, но и характерной ее неоднородностью, амбивалентностью, где между святостью и демоничностью тонкая грань. В произведении Л.М. Леонова эта противоречивость сохраняется и даже усиливается, место веры становится местом вселенского отчаяния. Творческий замысел художника объясним не только кризисными настроениями начала века, но и социально-политическими реформами новой власти. В мифологеме сохраняются неизменные составляющие: мифологическое пространство, ...