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Russian Wanderer in the Post-Soviet Space
- Author(s):
- Katya Jordan (see profile)
- Date:
- 2017
- Group(s):
- Russian/Eurasian Literature
- Subject(s):
- Russian literature, Russians--Social life and customs
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Ilichevsky, Homelessness, Matisse, Russian culture
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/60tv-1172
- Abstract:
- In "Russian Wanderer in the Post-Soviet Space: Homelessness in Ilichevsky's Matisse," Jordan examines Aleksandr Ilichevsky's conceptualization of homelessness as a state of existential not belonging that beset the author and his peers when the Soviet system collapsed in the early 1990s. The novel's protagonist mitigates his metaphorical homelessness by embracing actual homelessness, using it as a "part of a flight to a deeper awareness" (Widmer); yet Jordan also shows that homelessness in Matisse draws on the Russian spiritual tradition of strannichestvo, or departure from the secular world in pursuit of a sacred destination. By bringing into the discussion the writings of Dostoevsky, Berdyaev, and Ioann Lestvichnik, Jordan shows that although strannichestvo in Matisse has lost its religious underpinnings, it remains primarily a spiritual concept that allows an individual to break free from a mass society and gain the kind of fulfillment that the Soviet state promised but failed to deliver.
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- Published as:
- Journal article Show details
- Pub. DOI:
- 10.1163/22102396-05104008
- Publisher:
- Brill
- Pub. Date:
- 2017-12-13
- Journal:
- Canadian-American Slavic Studies
- Volume:
- 51
- Issue:
- 4
- Page Range:
- 481 - 501
- ISSN:
- 0090-8290,2210-2396
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 4 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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