Abstract

The article, among other meaning-forming factors of the narrative text, highlights the specific locus of the railway, which plays a significant role in Russian literature of the 19th and then 20th centuries. It is shown that in the space of the railway car the worldview and behavior of people change. This is due to the nature of the microsociium that develops in such a space. It can occur a variety of, unpredictable meetings, there is an attraction or repulsion of the met, communication can expose the most intimate depths of personality or mask them. All this is done in conditions of heightened mental tension, under the influence of such factors, which rarely occur in systemic communicative acts. Such phenomena is demonstrated by the examples of Leo Tolstoy's novel "Kreutzer Sonata", his novel "Resurrection", Dostoevsky's travel notes and his novel "The Idiot", works by Ivan Bunin ("The Life of Arseniev", "Penguins" etc.), Vladimir Nabokov ("Other Shores", "Glory" and etc.)

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  • The article, among other meaning-forming factors of the narrative text, highlights the specific locus of the railway, which plays a significant role in Russian literature of the 19th and 20th centuries

  • Однако в том же столетии появился новый специфический в своем подвижном содержании локус – железная дорога, связующая урбанистические локусы и покрывающая разрастающейся сетью осваиваемое цивилизацией пространство

  • А герой «Волшебника» (1939) почти не различает сквозь свою эгосферу, густо испещренную знаками и образами его эротических вожделений, сидевшую напротив него в вагоне попутчицу и не осознает, почему она вдруг перешла в другое отделение

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The article, among other meaning-forming factors of the narrative text, highlights the specific locus of the railway, which plays a significant role in Russian literature of the 19th and 20th centuries. Ключевые слова: Русская Литература, Железная Дорога, Локус Поезда, Лев Толстой, Достоевский, Бунин, Набоков.

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