Determinants of Time in Yevgeny Vodolazkin’s Novel “The Aviator”

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https://doi.org/10.18778/1427-9681.14.21

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contemporary Russian literature, prose, diary, determinants of time, Yevgeny Vodolazkin, The Aviator

Abstract

The paper is devoted to the category of time in the novel The Aviator (2016) by Yevgeny Vodolazkin, the category being the key to comprehending the conceptual universe of this text. The main aim of the study is to identify the temporal layers in the novel and to indicate the dominant attributes that define each of the described periods. In the paper time is considered as a phenomenon, and attribute (determinant) as its distinctive feature. Such an approach allows the author to identify not two, as in previous scholarly literature, but three layers of time: the period of pre- -revolutionary Russia, the period of the “Bolshevik hell”, and the period of Russia at the end of the second millennium. The interpretation of the nature of time in the novel has also been facilitated by a general consideration of the work’s genre affiliation. Basing on the conviction that the elements imperceptible in the historical process create a real picture of a certain period, thus encouraging the study of the minutiae of life in different times, the author describes various details, as well as classifies them. The representative groups of indicators are distinguished as follows: smells inherent to certain attributes, sounds emitted by attributes, elements of the characters’ everyday life as well as festive time, means of transport, and the arrangement of space. The concept of chronotope, developed by Mikhail Bakhtin, has also been important for the study. The author notices that the change of a historical reference point is accompanied by a new characterisation of the indicators. In the discussed novel it is precisely the attributes that make it possible to separate the temporal layers, and this, indeed, is their main function.

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Piotr Baleja, Uniwersytet Łódzki, Wydział Filologiczny, Instytut Rusycystyki, Zakład Literatury i Kultury Rosyjskiej90-226 Łódź, ul. Pomorska 171/173

Балея Петр (Baleja Piotr) – студент Института русистики Лодзинского университета. Научные интересы: современная русская литература, интер- текстуальность, литературный перевод, творчество Евгения Водолазкина. Научный дебют.

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Published

2021-12-23

How to Cite

Baleja, P. (2021). Determinants of Time in Yevgeny Vodolazkin’s Novel “The Aviator”. Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Rossica, (14), 247–260. https://doi.org/10.18778/1427-9681.14.21

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