The New Body of the “Thaw” in Vasily Aksyonov’s Novella "Colleagues" and its Film Adaptation

Authors

  • Natalia Nyagolova Velikotyrnovskii universitet im. Svyatykh Kirilla i Mefodia, Kafedra rusistiki, 5003 V. Tyrnovo, ul. Teodosii Tyrnovskii 2; MGU im. M. V. Lomonosova, Kafedra slavianskoi filologii, 119992 Мoskva, Leninskie góry, I korpus gumanitarnykh fakultetov https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5535-7224

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/1427-9681.13.19

Keywords:

poetics, body, “Thaw”, sexuality, medical discourse

Abstract

The article focuses on the concept of body representation in Vasily Aksyonov’s short novel Colleagues and in Aleksei Sakharov’s 1962 film of the same title. The new ways in which the body began to be represented during the “Thaw” are reported – its medicalization, eroticization, and electronization. The paper describes the three models of corporality from the novella and traces their transformations in the screen adaptation.

Author Biography

  • Natalia Nyagolova, Velikotyrnovskii universitet im. Svyatykh Kirilla i Mefodia, Kafedra rusistiki, 5003 V. Tyrnovo, ul. Teodosii Tyrnovskii 2; MGU im. M. V. Lomonosova, Kafedra slavianskoi filologii, 119992 Мoskva, Leninskie góry, I korpus gumanitarnykh fakultetov

    Няголова Наталия – доцент, доктор кафедры русистики Великотырновского университета имени Святых Кирилла и Мефодия (Болгария). Научные интересы: русская драматургия второй половины XIX в., поэтика кинотекста, математические и компьютерные методы в литературоведении. Автор монографий: Между бита и битието. Герой и вещ в драматургията на А. П. Чехов (Велико Търново, 2008), Речник-конкорданс на многоактната драматургия на А. П. Чехов (София, 2013), Текст и кинотекст (Шумен, 2014), Семиотика на кабинета в руската литература от втората половина на XIX век (София, 2014). Свыше ста научных статей опубликованы в европейских филологических сборниках и журналах.

     

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2020-08-28

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No. 13 (2020): Poetyka literatury rosyjskiej: podejścia i interpretacje

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Nyagolova, Natalia. 2020. “The New Body of the ‘Thaw’ in Vasily Aksyonov’s Novella ‘Colleagues’ and Its Film Adaptation ”. Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Rossica, no. 13 (August): 213-21. https://doi.org/10.18778/1427-9681.13.19.
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