About the author:
Aleksandr A. Dyrdin, DSc in Philology, Professor, Senior Researcher, Scholarly-Research Division of the Institute of Academic Studies and Innovations, Ulyanovsk State Technical University, Severnii Venec st. 32, 432027 Ulyanovsk, Russia.
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Abstract:
The article analyzes one of the features related to the dialogue between national religious and secular cultures as rendered in M.A. Sholokhov’s ideological-literary world. This is a connection with the canonical parable, i.e., the transformation and dissociation of parable plots, their interaction with the events and literary types created by the writer, and, finally, their authorial renderings and reductions to symbolical images. The author of the novel And Quiet Flows the Don addresses to the Christian subjects and motives so as to actualize their spiritual meanings. The parable as an ontological genre is represented in Sholokhov’s works through the systematic references to Evangelical and Old Testament parables and phraseological units. This textual feature — along with the parable dimension typical for the author’s literary voice — allows to consider Sholokhov’s modifications of parable plots and situations as that ideologicalspiritual narrative basis which largely determines both the authorial style and the multiplicity of its semantic levels: i.e., the synthesis, the interaction between real, plot-archetypal, and literary-philosophical dimensions.