THE MOTIVES OF TRAVEL AND ESCAPE IN THE PROSE OF MODERN WOMEN-WRITERS (O. TOKARCHUK, L. ULITSKAYA, L. PETRUSHEVSKAYA)

Abstract

The article analyzes the motives of travel and escape, which are pretty common in modern women prose and appears closely related to each other. The connection between travel and self-knowledge is also obvious. In female prose, it is presented through the motive of physicality. In the works of modern writers, these motives work differently: in the texts of the Polish writer Olga Tokarchuk, travel and escape function as motives that define the world and the human body in their mirror image, which creates the illusion of the absence of borders between the external and internal worlds. In the work of Lyudmila Ulitskaya, such a function is endowed with only a flight motive, which manifests itself in the image of the inner world of heroes. The autobiographical work of Lyudmila Petrushevskaya demonstrates a strategy in which travel and escape are associated with the idea of creative search and creative independence. The analysis of the sustainable motives of female prose allows us to conclude that the writers have their special view on the problem of self-knowledge.