Open AccessBotanical Key to Fedor Sologub’s Short Story "It Didn’t Work"
Author(s) -
Олег Лекманов
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
russkaâ literatura
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.101
H-Index - 2
ISSN - 0131-6095
DOI - 10.31860/0131-6095-2020-3-251-252
Subject(s) - key (lock) , work (physics) , genealogy , kingdom , history , art , botany , biology , ecology , engineering , mechanical engineering
The article analyzes Fedor Sologub’s early story "It Didn’t Work". The key to this story is the names of cities in which the events take place, and the names of the characters. All of them are derived from the names of plants. In the works of Sologub, Russia is often presented as a plant kingdom, where the weedy and poisonous fl ora stupefi es the unfortunate inhabitants.