The philosophy of space in Vadim Levanov’s dramaturgy

Authors

  • Tatiana V. Zhurcheva Samara National Research University named after academician S. P. Korolyov, 34 Moskovskoe Highway, Samara 443086, Russia

Keywords:

Vadim Levanov, newest drama, Togliatti drama, art space, inner conflict, existential conflict

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of understanding the artistic space in the dramaturgy of Vadim Levanov, one of the most prominent representatives of the modern Russian drama. From the very first plays and throughout his career Levanov works in detail and carefully with spatial images, giving them complex symbolic meanings. The article consistently examines the plays of different periods of the playwright’s creativity, traces the evolution of spatial images in his dramaturgy. The author analyzes the early plays, which use the traditional for the literature of the XX century method of closed space, allowing to focus on the internal conflict of the hero, on the situation of moral choice, on the problem of loneliness and alienation of man from the world, from understanding the meaning of being. Levanov’s commitment to existential conflict logically leads him to the fact that in his later program works he seeks to oppose the closed and open space as two models of human existence. In his latest pieces built complex parabola, linking the life and being, the earth and sky, man and God.

Author Biography

  • Tatiana V. Zhurcheva, Samara National Research University named after academician S. P. Korolyov, 34 Moskovskoe Highway, Samara 443086, Russia

    PhD (philology), docent; associate professor at the department of Russian and foreign literature and
    public relations, faculty of philology and journalism

References

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Published

2019-02-27

Issue

No. 1 (2019): Journal of the Belarusian State University. Philology

Section

Literary Research

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Zhurcheva, T.V. 2019. The philosophy of space in Vadim Levanov’s dramaturgy. Journal of the Belarusian State University. Philology. 1 (Feb. 2019), 25–30.