scholarly journals THE IMAGE OF THE SPY IN THE NOVEL BY S. POSTOLOVSKYI «THE ENEMY, OR THE GOD’S WRATH » – A HERO OR A CRIMINAL?

2019 ◽  
pp. 266-274
Author(s):  
A. V. Zemlianska ◽  
A. M. Zemlianskyi
Keyword(s):  
Young Generation ◽  
The Novel ◽  
James Bond ◽  
The Future ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
The Law ◽  
Hybrid War ◽  
Wrath Of God

The article is devoted to the analysis of images of the main characters of the spy in S. Postolovskyi’s novel «The Enemy, or the Wrath of God». It is emphasised on author’s traditional representations of the typical image of spy showed in the images of James Bond (by I. Fleming), George Smiley (by J. Le Carre) and Stierlitz (by Yu. Semenov). The author updates these images according to the realities of the present. It is determined that the participants of the operation «The God’s Wrath», depicted in the S. Postolovskyi’s novel, are very colorful figures, people that are ready to fight, but this desire to take revenge on the enemies of their country is based for each of them on personal reasons: the desire to get a higher post, to find out the truth about the work of the spy-saboteur and to determine their own place in the battle for their country, establish justice, and so on. The writer successfully combines the contradictory features of heroes and criminals in their characters, emphasizing their ambiguity, which makes them believable, living people, and not ideologically well-established figures. It was found out that the most ideologized image in the work is the figure of Captain Ivan Principle, the favorite S. Postolovskyi’s hero, who has already met in the previous writer’s works. The surname of this character is fully matched with his inner qualities: he is honest, fair, takes the attention of women, and in his actions he is always guided by the law and believes that the means do not always justify the goal. The author tried to bring out a new image of a spy, a modern hero who could become a sample for the young generation. It was also revealed that in the images of other ministers of the Office, who participated in the organization of Operation «The God’s Wrath», – General Bulldog, Colonel Myron and Captain Nechypailo – the writer depicted the typical representatives of his time, capable of high aspirations and courageous deeds, but at the same time they are typical executors of any order, often criminal, when it coincides with their notions of justice and duty. Thus, S. Postolovskyi presented his own vision of Ukraine’s fate in the «hybrid war» with Russia and those people whom the result of this war directly depends on. Since he can’t foresee the future, the author leaves his protagonists a tragic fate, just like life itself.

scholarly journals Dreams about the Future in Vsevolod Ivanov’s Prose 1920–1930s

2019 ◽  
pp. 7-17
Author(s):  
E. A. Papkova
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Development ◽  
Scientific Discovery ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Future ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
Mental Abilities ◽  
Soviet Russia ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Images Of The Future

The article considers the ideological and aesthetic role of dreams about the future in the works of Vsevolod Ivanov of different years. Already in the legend “Yermak’s dream” (1916) defined semantic constants, which will be characteristic for dreams about the future in the stories “The Accident on the River Thun” (1925) and “A strange case in the Warm Lane” (1935), as well as in the diary records 1937 and 1938. The future is characterized by an extraordinary technical takeoff, which, however, does not bring with it the spiritual development of people: the struggle of ideological opponents continues, it becomes even more merciless. It is significant that presented in the story “The Accident on the Thun River” the image of the future in the perception of the hero-narrator essentially differs from the «good life» that male-partisans dream in the “Partisan stories” of the writer. Revealed real context storytelling – the events of 1919 in Siberia, a witness and participant which was V. Ivanov, – partly explains the features of sinister dystopia inherent the image of the future. In the 1930s, despite the active participation of V. Ivanov in A. M. Gorky’s social and literary projects aimed at the creation of the future of Soviet Russia, his image, presented in the story “A strange case in the Warm Lane”, keeps those semantic constants, which we called. However, in the text of the 1930s they are presented not scary, but ridiculous. The ongoing struggle to free the “prisoners of El Gotha” does not look ominous, it is mainly manifested in the “powerful shouting” and “waving of arms”. The great scientific discoveries of the future, the achievements of scientists and the possibility of their collaboration with writers, to which attracted so much attention in the current periodicals of the era, are given by V. Ivanov in a parody key: the relationship of autobiographical hero and young physicists, the realities of the future Moscow (for example, the House of Eccentrics), from which only an ordinary mouse gets into the present, and others. The outstanding scientific discovery of a professor from the future of the USSR aimed at cost-beneficial reduction of growth of a person while preserving his mental abilities, parodying the attitudes of the era 1930s to create a “race of giants”. At the same time in the dreams of V. Ivanov’s characters (in the novel “U”, for example) the image of the future preserves peculiar to the time light, sublime features. The article is held the parallel between the images of the future in the works of V. Ivanov and L. M. Leonov (in the novel “The Road to the Ocean”) of the 1930s. Almost simultaneously Writers question the technical progress, “the construction Christian Paradise” (L. Leonov) by the forces of living people with inevitable limited by life itself and human nature opportunities.

scholarly journals W imię Boga Jedynego! (Aleksiej Warłamow „Zatopiona arka”)

2018 ◽  
pp. 107-116
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Lewandowska
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Life ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Orthodox Christianity ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Old Believers ◽  
Russian People ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Insight Into

The article is an attempt to present a religious situation described by Aleksey Varlamov in his novel Zatonuvshiy kovcheg. The spiritual life of Russians after Perestroika not only turned out to be a period of resurgence of Orthodox Christianity, but also the emergence as well as restoration of previously existing sects. Therefore, this novel amounts to a new voice of the discussion on the Russians’ spiritual life then, now and in the future. The author tries to prove that the reawakening of sects brings danger to Russian people, especially to the young generation. This paper presents an analysis  of those fragments of the novel that refer to religious subjects and contain descriptions  of sects (the Old Believers and the Skoptsy). Besides, spiritual leaders of these sects (Vassian and Luppo) are characterized. The insight into the history of these religious groups is provided and supplemented with Varlamov's descriptions from the novel.

Buried Narratives: Exhuming the Mother's Story in Oliver Twist

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 247-266
Author(s):  
Michelle L. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Maternal Inheritance ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Poor Law ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Law ◽  
First Time ◽  
Critical Consideration

Initially, Oliver Twist (1839) might seem representative of the archetypal male social plot, following an orphan and finding him a place by discovering the father and settling the boy within his inheritance. But Agnes Fleming haunts this narrative, undoing its neat, linear transmission. This reconsideration of maternal inheritance and plot in the novel occurs against the backdrop of legal and social change. I extend the critical consideration of the novel's relationship to the New Poor Law by thinking about its reflection on the bastardy clauses. And here, of course, is where the mother enters. Under the bastardy clauses, the responsibility for economic maintenance of bastard children was, for the first time, legally assigned to the mother, relieving the father of any and all obligation. Oliver Twist manages to critique the bastardy clauses for their release of the father, while simultaneously embracing the placement of the mother at the head of the family line. Both Oliver and the novel thus suggest that it is the mother's story that matters, her name through which we find our own. And by containing both plots – that of the father and the mother – Oliver Twist reveals the violence implicit in traditional modes of inheritance in the novel and under the law.

Black Books and Brownies

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Milbank
Keyword(s):  
Historical Change ◽  
Religious Change ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Black Book ◽  
James Hogg ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
The Future

Scottish fiction about the Reformation is concerned with the mechanics of historical change, which are rendered through a series of enchanted books and people discussed in Chapter 8. In the novel, The Monastery, describing the Dissolution and Reformation, Scott gothicizes the Bible as a magic book and the White Lady as its guardian to dramatize the mysterious nature of religious change, the dependence of the future on a Gothic past, and the need for interpretation. In Old Mortality, Scott’s protagonist escapes the frozen dualities of Covenanter and Claverhouse, revealing historical change itself as problematic in Humean terms and requiring a leap of faith. James Hogg contests this presentation of the Covenanters by re-enchanting them as supposed brownies, as mediators of history and nature, and in his Three Perils of Man reprises Scott’s wizard Michael Scott pitted against Roger Bacon and his ‘black book’ the Bible to present the Reformation as an eternal reality.

Dombey and Son

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Dickens ◽  
Dennis Walder
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships ◽  
The Sun ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Future ◽  
Original Illustrations ◽  
The One

Dombey and Son ... Those three words conveyed the one idea of Mr. Dombey's life. The earth was made for Dombey and Son to trade in, and the sun and moon were made to give them light.' The hopes of Mr Dombey for the future of his shipping firm are centred on his delicate son Paul, and Florence, his devoted daughter, is unloved and neglected. When the firm faces ruin, and Dombey's second marriage ends in disaster, only Florence has the strength and humanity to save her father from desolate solitude. This new edition contains Dickens's prefaces, his working plans, and all the original illustrations by ‘Phiz’. The text is that of the definitive Clarendon edition. It has been supplemented by a wide-ranging Introduction, highlighting Dickens's engagement with his times, and the touching exploration of family relationships which give the novel added depth and relevance.

La Bête humaine

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Émile Zola
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Second Empire ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Context ◽  
The Future

Did possessing and killing amount to the same thing deep within the dark recesses of the human beast? La Bete humaine (1890), is one of Zola’s most violent and explicit works. On one level a tale of murder, passion and possession, it is also a compassionate study of individuals derailed by atavistic forces beyond their control. Zola considered this his ‘most finely worked’ novel, and in it he powerfully evokes life at the end of the Second Empire in France, where society seemed to be hurtling into the future like the new locomotives and railways it was building. While expressing the hope that human nature evolves through education and gradually frees itself of the burden of inherited evil, he is constantly reminding us that under the veneer of technological progress there remains, always, the beast within. This new translation captures Zola's fast-paced yet deliberately dispassionate style, while the introduction and detailed notes place the novel in its social, historical, and literary context.

Sententiousness and the Novel: Laying Down the Law in Eighteenth-Century French Fiction.

1987 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 483
Author(s):  
Peggy Kamuf ◽  
Geoffrey Bennington
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Law

The Trial of the Future: Challenge to the Law

1963 ◽  
Vol 77 (2) ◽  
pp. 393
Author(s):  
Walter V. Schaefer ◽  
Bernard Botein ◽  
Murray Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Future Challenge ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Law

scholarly journals Love in the time of Covid-19: a case-study of the complex laws governing weddings

Legal Studies ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Rebecca Probert ◽  
Stephanie Pywell
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Marriage Law ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
General Law ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
Fit For Purpose ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Impact

Abstract During 2020, weddings were profoundly affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. During periods of lockdown few weddings could take place, and even afterwards restrictions on how they could be celebrated remained. To investigate the impact of such restrictions, we carried out a survey of those whose plans to marry in England and Wales had been affected by Covid-19. The 1,449 responses we received illustrated that the ease and speed with which couples had been able to marry, and sometimes whether they had been able to marry at all, had depended not merely on the national restrictions in place but on their chosen route into marriage. This highlights the complexity and antiquity of marriage law and reinforces the need for reform. The restrictions on weddings taking place also revealed the extent to which couples valued getting married as opposed to having a wedding. Understanding both the social and the legal dimension of weddings is important in informing recommendations as to how the law should be changed in the future, not merely to deal with similar crises but also to ensure that the general law is fit for purpose in the twenty-first century.

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