Open AccessMOTIFS OF “NATIVE” AND “ANOTHER” IN THE STRUCTURE OF THE “DOTTED LINE-NOVEL” “KHURRAMABAD” BY A. VOLOS
Author(s) -
V. V. Maroshi
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
kulʹtura i tekst
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2305-4077
DOI - 10.37386/2305-4077-2021-2-138-151
Subject(s) - alienation , narrative , spanish civil war , motif (music) , emigration , sociology , history , gender studies , aesthetics , political science , art , literature , law , archaeology
The article deals with the role of the oppositions of «native» and «other» in the novel «Khurramabad» by A. Volos (2000). From «locus amoenus» Khurramabad turns into a dangerous place marked by violence and grief. All narratives of the novel are organized in chronological order: from the early 1930s to the 1990s, which was the time of mass departure of Russians and the civil war. Their sequence is due first to the Russian mastering of “another” («foreign») world, and then catastrophic loss of native city, property, and finally emigration to an unfriendly Russian countryside. The growing alienation of the characters ends with the author’s own alienation in the final essay «Khujand Dotted Line».