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• Title:
  Bies na dnie butelki… Myśli i konteksty do relektury poematu Jerofiejewa
• Creator:
  Legeżyńska, Anna
• Description:
  In different European cultures a word „devil” implies universal association with a conceptof evil, sin and punishment. In my essay it is a metaphor of modern subject division. Thedevil in the form of alcohol steals consciousness from a person, a fight with evil ends infailure. The most prominent example of „alcohol prose” in Russian literature is VenedictYerofeyev’s book Moscow-Petushki. For the first time it was available in Poland in 1976thanks to “emigrant translation” (no censorship), then reprinted as an allegory of Soviet totalitarianism.Nowadays it requires new interpretation, therefore I choose new contexts andexamples: a poem by Jerzy Liebert, pieces of prose by Malcolm Lowry (Under the Volcano),Marek Hłasko (Loop) and other Polish newest literary works. Analysing Russian narrativepoem I pay attention to the problem of individual freedom in a desacralized world, wherethere are no moral values. I show a route of life-peregrination as a vicious circle that may bebroken only by death. Character created by Yerofeyev is a person, who gave his “soul” (i.e.his identity) to the “devil”, but he did not made any choice, because he had been predestinedto existence without consciousness.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Copyright (c) 2012 Anna Legeżyńska
• Date:
  2020.03.22
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Artykuł naukowy
• Language:
  Polish
• Source:
  Przegląd Rusycystyczny; Nr 1/2 (2012);
  Przegląd Rusycystyczny [Russian Studies Review]; No 1/2 (2012);
  Przegląd Rusycystyczny [Русское обозрение]; № 1/2 (2012);
  0137-298X
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Polskie Towarzystwo Rusycystyczne oraz Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
• Relation: https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/PR/article/view/8622/6632
• Identifier: https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/PR/article/view/8622
• Data provider:
  Czasopisma Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  text