Malý člověk a jeho dotyk s ideologií u I. Šmeljova

Vol.11,No.2(2008)

Abstract
The article is dedicated to a traditional theme of Russian literature - that of the "common man" in the unstable situation at the beginning of the 20t h century. In the Russian literature of the 19th century the common man has been mostly depicted as a victim of the social stratification, but the short story Гражданин Уклейкин by Ivan Shmelev (written in 1907) showed the hero - the shoemaker Uklejkin - as a victim of the falsely interpreted ideology, of the political backrooms and of normal human weaknesses of a worker of the same social status; this worker deprived him of the common happiness and satisfaction.

Keywords:
the theme of the "common man"; the Russian prose at the end of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20t h century; literature and ideology; Ivan Shmelev; Russian short story

Pages:
63–71
Metrics

25

Views

0

PDF (Czech) views