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FAUSTIAN MOTIFS IN I.S. TURGENEV’S WORKS OF THE 1850S.

Literary Сriticism

Authors

  • Alexeenko Svetlana

Annotation

Using Goethe’s receptions in the novel “Rudin”, tales “Faust” and “Asya”, I.S. Turgenev reinterprets the mythologem of Faustian archetype, which is connected with the main character’s temptation by love to a woman. Turgenev introduces some Faustian motifs in his works, for example, the image of wings or the motif of flight as a kind of incarnation of uncontrollable dream and absolute freedom. There can be also mentioned the motif of a flying moment — the theme, which was always interesting to the Russian author.
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