Motywy akwatyczne w powieści Zachara Prilepina Patologie

• Authors: Monika Zielińska-Dziubińska

Abstracts

EN

Incorporating aquatic motifs into his novel Pathologies, Zakhar Prilepin ascribes different functions to them. Firstly, in ‘Chechen story’, water takes the form of rain that constitutes an ordinary, thought irritating, atmospheric phenomenon. However, when the young protagonists fight under siege in Chechnya, water acquires a symbolic meaning, becoming a dire portent of death. In the final scenes, set in Chechnya, water changes its connotation and saves the survivor Russian soldier’s lives. Besides, water plays in Prilepin’s novel (Epilogue) the role of catharsis: it is the river’s water where the author is reborn and ‘baptized’ so that soul was purified of the past sins related to upbringing and care for his adoptive son.

Keywords

EN

aquatic motifs; prilepin; water; chechnya; catharsis

• Publisher: Wyższa Szkoła Gospodarki w Bydgoszczy. Wydawnictwo Uczelniane
• Journal: Heteroglossia. Studia Kulturoznawczo-Filologiczne
• Year: 2020
• Issue: 10
• Pages: 37-44

Contributors

author

Monika Zielińska-Dziubińska

• Uniwersytet Warszawski

• https://orcid.org/0000000224008686

Identifiers

DOI

10.34864/heteroglossia.issn.2084-1302.nr10.art3

Biblioteka Nauki

956441