Slovo 9, 2021

 

ARTICLES

Teodora Alexandra FILIP

Povestea nespusă din lagărele sovietice: experiența femeilor (The Untold Story From the Soviet Gulags: The Experiences of Women), p. 5-19

Abstract. The purpose of this paper is to present the hardships of the women who struggled to survive the Gulag during Stalin’s oppressive regime. The source material consists mostly of memoirs. Given the fact that these experiences are of great importance to women at all times, this paper focuses on topics such as relationships, abuse and motherhood. The study also aims to highlight the importance of the female perspective in history.

Keywords: women; Gulag; relationships; abuse; motherhood.

Larisa-Maria ENCIU

Condiția femeii în cultura rusă studiu de caz: Lady Macbeth din Siberia de Nikolai Leskov (The Condition of Women in Russian Culture Case Study: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Nikolay Leskov), p. 20-38

Abstract. This article discusses the contradictions generated by the social movement for the emancipation of women, especially in the Russian state. In the story of Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Nikolai Leskov emphasises the idea that the promotion of the tabula rasa model among women can have harmful consequences both for the individual and for society.

Keywords: Emancipation; social order; Leskov; independence; behavioral model.

Gabriela HURMUZ

Tema violenței în proza lui Daniil Harms (The Theme of Violence in Daniil Kharms` Prose), p. 39-51

Abstract. Daniil Kharms is an intricate and paradoxical author and his work unquestionably represents a peculiar phenomenon in Russian literature. The subject of our thesis resides in the theme of violence in Daniil Kharms’ prose. These acts of violence abound in countless interpretable clues which we can detect in his work: violence as a form of protest against the socio-political system, as an allusion to political oppression and persecution, and as means for the author to reveal his own despair which stems from the events of the times. The aim of the present analysis is to delve into the iterative types of violence in Kharms’ creation and to identify the means pertaining to the aesthetics of the ugly, employed by the author.

Keywords: Daniil Kharms; the theme of violence; paradoxical; the aesthetics of the ugly.

Alina IACOB

Utilitarismul în literatura rusă: utopia lui Cernîșevski și distopia lui Odoevski (Utilitarianism in Russian Literature: Chernyshevsky’s Utopia and Odoyevsky’s Dystopia), p. 52-77

Abstract. The present article examines how the theory of utilitarianism, highly debated in the Russian society of the 19th century, is embodied in the field of literature through the works of two fundamentally different authors: Vladimir Odoyevsky and Nikolay Chernyshevsky. Through this article we endeavour to discover how the polarity of the utopia-dystopia genre leads to the creation of two opposite ethe, which nevertheless stem from a sole reductive mentality.

Keywords: Vladimir Odoyevsky; Nikolay Chernyshevsky; utopian thinking; utopia; dystopia.

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