Open AccessBLOK’S CONTEXT OF THE FIREWOOD BY M. M. ZOSHCHENKO
Author(s) -
Meiping Yan,
E. I. Kolesnikova
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
russkaâ literatura
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.101
H-Index - 2
ISSN - 0131-6095
DOI - 10.31860/0131-6095-2021-3-108-119
Subject(s) - epigraph , comics , context (archaeology) , interpretation (philosophy) , literature , narrative , firewood , poetry , character (mathematics) , sociocultural evolution , history , key (lock) , philosophy , art , sociology , linguistics , anthropology , computer science , geometry , mathematics , archaeology , computer security
The article analyzes the function of the epigraph to the story The Firewood, that goes back to one of Blok’s short comic poems. As a part of the story’s semantic structure, the epigraph makes it possible to actualize implicit autobiographical and historical-literary narratives. The mysterious Christmas code offers the key for an interpretation of the work in the context of the moral and ethical evolution of Zoshchenko’s character, which rhymes with that of the writer himself. The article demonstrates the prescience of Blok’s ideas for the existence of an artist in the Soviet sociocultural context throughout the 20th century.