Symbolism of Natural Imagery in Prose of Russian Émigré Writers (E. Yu. Skobtsova, N. D. Gorodetskaya, V. A. Nikiforov-Volgin)
https://doi.org/10.24224/2227-1295-2024-13-4-207-229
Abstract
This study explores the issue of symbolization of natural imagery in an ontological, existential sense through the works of authors belonging to the first wave of Russian literary emigration. It is noted that in E. Yu. Skobtsova’s novel “Russian Plain”, a mythologized image of spiritualized space is created, encompassing an expressively colored image of the motherland, calling on children to respond to universal pain. In the autobiographical prose of N. D. Gorodetskaya, past and present converge in a unified sense of gratitude: the gracious, invaluable past seems to merge into the present, giving it integrity and significance, with the native surrounding world in the past becoming the writer’s main life support, a great ontological value. V. A. Nikiforov-Volgin’s works reveal a typologically similar mythologization of space in an original individual-authorial perception, accentuating the motif of the sacredness of the latter, expressing the drama of the years of adversity; with N. D. Gorodetskaya, the writer is united by a perception of the harmony of the native surrounding world with a child’s soul. The analysis conducted convinces that the artistic thinking of E. Yu. Skobtsova, N. D. Gorodetskaya, V. A. Nikiforov-Volgin developed in a typological stream of neorealistic artistic consciousness characterized by a multifaceted synthesis of various artistic elements.
Keywords
national landscape,
sacredness,
mythopoetics,
symbolism,
ontological meaning,
typological commonality
Supporting agencies: The study is supported by Russian Science Foundation, project number 23-28-00966, https://rscf.ru/project/23-28-00966/
About the Authors
V. T. Zakharova
Minin Nizhny Novgorod State Pedagogical University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Viktoria T. Zakharova, Doctor of Philology, Professor, Department of Russian and Foreign Philology
Nizhny Novgorod
I. S. Kudryavtseva
Minin Nizhny Novgorod State Pedagogical University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Irina S. Kudryavtseva, Master’s degree student, Department of Russian and Foreign Philology
Nizhny Novgorod
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Zakharova V.T., Kudryavtseva I.S. Symbolism of Natural Imagery in Prose of Russian Émigré Writers (E. Yu. Skobtsova, N. D. Gorodetskaya, V. A. Nikiforov-Volgin). Nauchnyi dialog. 2024;13(4):207-229. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.24224/2227-1295-2024-13-4-207-229
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