The Threshold Situation in Edvard Radzinsky’s Historical Parable „Lunin, or the Death of Jacques”

Authors

  • Olga Zhurcheva Samarskii gosudarstvennyi sotsialno-pedagogicheskii universitet, Kafedra russkoi, zarubezhnoi literatury i metodiki prepodavaniia literatury, 443099 Samara, ul. Maksima Gorkogo, d. 65/67 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7800-021X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/1427-9681.12.13

Keywords:

historical parable, threshold situation, Edvard Radzinsky, Mikhail Lunin, visualization, paradox

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of the historical parable Lunin, or the Death of Jacques, Recorded in the Presence of the Master by Edvard Radzinsky. Proceeding from the genre paradigm of the parable, Radzinsky builds the conflict of the play with the use of the threshold situation, with the main character awaiting execution. While expecting death, Lunin recalls his whole life, therefore the whole action of the play is concentrated in the real and in the mental time and space. Although in reality Lunin is alone in the prison cell, in his imagination he is surrounded by many people whom he has met in the course of his life. This plot paradox creates the illusion of the protagonist’s memories becoming visualised and of the public character of his death.

Author Biography

  • Olga Zhurcheva, Samarskii gosudarstvennyi sotsialno-pedagogicheskii universitet, Kafedra russkoi, zarubezhnoi literatury i metodiki prepodavaniia literatury, 443099 Samara, ul. Maksima Gorkogo, d. 65/67

    profesor nauk humanistycznych w Katedrze literatury rosyjskiej, zagranicznej i metodyki nauczania literatury w Państwowym Uniwersytecie Społeczno-Pedagogicznym w Samarze. Zainteresowania badawcze: historia i teoria dramaturgii rosyjskiej XX–XXI w. Wybrane publikacje: Жанровый канон в новейшей русской драме, „Вестник Челябинского государственного педагогического университета” 2016, nr 1, s. 89–94; Последний экзистенциалист: концепция героя в драматургии А. Володина, „Вестник Самарского госуниверситета. Гуманитарная серия” 2016, nr 1, s. 168–175; Вербатим как механизм создания «новой документальности» в новейшей русской драме, „Филология и культура” 2016, nr 3 (45), s. 84–90; Аксиология пространства в новейшей русской драматургии, „Вестник Самарского университета. История, педагогика, филология” 2017, nr 1, 2, s. 58-63; Трагическое и трагедия в новейшей драме, [w:] Новейшая драма XX–XXI вв.: предварительные итоги: коллективная монография, red. Т. В. Журчевa, Самара: Изд-во Самарского университета 2016, s. 37–43; Историческая притча Эдварда Радзинского «Лунин, или смерть Жака: принципы параболизации», «Филология и культура. Philology and Culture» 2018, вып. nr 53, s. 152–155.

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2019-10-22

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No. 12 (2019): Typy twórczości literackiej: od mistrza pióra do grafomana - 2

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Zhurcheva, Olga. 2019. “The Threshold Situation in Edvard Radzinsky’s Historical Parable „Lunin, or the Death of Jacques””. Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Rossica, no. 12 (October): 141-49. https://doi.org/10.18778/1427-9681.12.13.
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