Good, Evil, and man: transformation of mystical motifs in Yu. Mamleev’s prose
https://doi.org/10.20310/2587-6953-2025-11-2-465-476
Abstract
INTRODUCTION. The research is devoted to the art of a writer Yuri Mamleev. The purpose of the research is to reveal the role of system forming antinomy Good-Evil in the novelist’s stories. To analyze Abyss and Absolute motifs functions as central and categorically significant in the author’s short prose. The position of a person who is between those categories and is a peculiar “mediator” in the image system is considered.
MATERIALS AND METHODS. In the study, along with motif analysis, the hermeneutic, structural-semantic, and comparative methods are used.
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION. The scheme of the artistic conflict Good-Man-Bad embodied by the writer is system-forming and universal in the artistic world of Y. Mamleev. In presented image and antinomy system the situation of existential Choice becomes crucial, where the person is endowed with the function of both subject and object at the same time.
CONCLUSION. The novelty of the research is in consideration of a narrative strategy of Yu. Mamleev from the point of view of antinomianism and artistic conflict, which allows us to immerse in the depths of text, to discover new semantic facets to it.
About the Author
V. A. Chaurova
Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Valeria A. Chaurova, Post-Graduate Student, Russian and Foreign Literature Department
6 Miklukho-Maklaya St., Moscow, 117198
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Chaurova V.A. Good, Evil, and man: transformation of mystical motifs in Yu. Mamleev’s prose. Neophilology. 2025;11(2):465-476. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.20310/2587-6953-2025-11-2-465-476
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