Information about the author:
Olga A. Kaznina
Olga A. Kaznina, DSc in Philology, Senior Researcher, А.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya 25 а, 121069 Moscow, Russia.
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ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0014-1298
Abstract:
The article presents a new concept of genre and author’s image in the novel “We” by E.I. Zamyatin. In correlation with this concept the dominant principle of the novel consists in analyzing the creative process of writing and the author’s self-analysis, while the futuristic content performs the secondary role. The presented concept is grounded on a double selfportrait of the writer: the male character is an ironic picture of an intellectual conformist, and the female character on the contrary is an epitome of Zamyatin’s ideal of a spiritual rebel and “scyth.”