Information about the author:
Olga V. Bystrova
Olga V. Bystrova, PhD in Philology, Associate Professor, Senior Researcher, А.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya 25 а, 121069 Moscow, Russia.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1542-2516
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Abstract:
The article is devoted to the analysis of the artistic space features in A.N. Tolstoy’s novel Aelita. The flight of the novel protagonists, an engineer Elk and a Red Army soldier Gusev, is viewed through the prism of symbolic understanding of the planets, Earth and Mars, relationship. This is facilitated by thinking about the variants of the ‘ball’ symbol and the so-called ‘magnification effect’ of ground objects. At the emotional level, the feelings of the novel characters who find themselves outside Earth are considered. This allows you to see / feel the plasticity of the spatial form transformation and its role in the literary text structure.