Publication details
Protiválečný patos v povídce V. M. Garšina Četyre dnja
| Title in English | Anti-war Pathos in the V. M. Garshin’s Short Story Chetyrye dnya |
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| Year of publication | 2023 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Slavica Litteraria |
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| Citation | |
| Web | https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/digilib.79436 |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/SL2023-2-5 |
| Keywords | V. M. Garshin; Chetyre dnya; depathetisation; subjective view of war; resistance to war; autobiographical |
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| Description | The essay analyses the thought process of the subject of the narrative in the short story V. M. Garshin’s Chetyre dnya [Four Days]. The distinctly autobiographical text in ich-form concentrates on an “insignificant” war episode in which the subject of the narrative becomes both the one who killed the enemy and, thanks to an injury, immobile. Over the course of four days, during which he lies next to the naturalistically depicted gradually decomposing body of the dead enemy, he reflects on his situation, reassesses his naive view of war, and comes to oppose war itself by pitting individuals who are no different in their claim to life and in their roles in life |