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  • May 10, 2010
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SCHIZOPHRENIC FROM A. A. ZINOVYEV'S ARTISTIC NOVEL "YAWNING HEIGHTS" AS THE SOCIOLOGICAL "GOD'S FOOL"

Abstract

In the article the evolution of the God's fool image in the Russian literature is considered by the example of the hero Schizophrenic from A. A. Zinovyev's sociological novel Yawning heights. The features of the similarity of the personage with his literary canonical analogues are described. The new filling of the image of A. A. Zinovyev's schizophrenic allowing treating him as the sociological God's fool is mentioned.

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Elena Vitalyevna Komovskaya

Bryansk State University named after the academician I. G. Petrovskiy

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  • Published: May 10, 2010.

Keywords

  • образ «юродивого»
  • русская литература
  • социологический роман
  • А. А. Зиновьев
  • image of God's fool
  • Russian literature
  • sociological novel
  • A. A. Zinovyev

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