Lavr Evgenija Vodolazkina kao roman o vječnoj ljubavi

Scientific paper - Original scientific paper

• Title (english): Eugene Vodolazkin’s Laurus as a novela about eternel love
• Author: Živa Benčić https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7253-1036
• Author's institution: University of Zagreb; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; (Department of East Slavic languages and literatures)
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: HUMANISTIC SCIENCES; Philology; Slavic Studies

Abstract (croatian)

Premda su u žanrovski hibridnom romanu Lavr Evgenija Vodolazkina hagiografska i ljubavna nit pripovijedanja neodvojive jedna od druge, u ovome se članku analiza romana usredotočuje uglavnom na njegov ljubavni tematski kompleks, preciznije rečeno, na koncept vječne ljubavi koji se iza tog kompleksa krije. Nastoji se pokazati da se Vodolazkin u svojem shvaćanju ljubavi inspirira s jedne strane kršćansko-platonističkim učenjem o erosu Vladimira Solov’eva i Nikolaja Berdjaeva, a s druge strane ortodoksno-teološkim tumačenjem strasti kao grijeha. U svakom slučaju, u semantičko polje “ljubav”, onako kako je u svom romanu vidi Vodolazkin, ulaze i strast, i samilost, i neupitna trajnost. Kad je riječ o značenju pridjeva “vječan” iz sintagme “vječna ljubav”, upozorava se najprije na semantički talog kršćanskog shvaćanja vječnosti, a zatim se smisao navedenog pridjeva nastoji razjasniti u okviru Vodolazkinovih metafizičkih pretpostavki o irelevantnosti odnosno nepostojanju vremena.

Abstract (english)

Even though in Eugene Vodolazkin’s hybrid novel Laurus, the hagiographic and love storylines are inseparable, this paper focuses mainly on the topic of love, or more precisely, on the concept of eternal love. The paper seeks to demonstrate that in his understanding of love, Vodolazkin is inspired, on the one hand, by Vladimir Solovyov and Nikolai Berdyaev’s Christian-Platonist rendering of Eros, and, on the other, by the Orthodox-theological interpretation of passion as sin. In any case, the semantic field of “love”, as seen by Vodolazkin in his novel, includes passion and compassion and unquestionable permanence. The meaning of the adjective “eternal” in “eternal love” first points to the meaning of the Christian concept of eternity. The meaning of the adjective is further discussed and clarified in the framework of Vodolazkin’s metaphysical assumptions about the irrelevance or absence of time.

• Keywords (croatian): romantična ljubav; strast; vječna ljubav; hagiografija; grčki roman; E. Vodolazkin
• Keywords (english): romantic love; passion; eternal love; hagiography; Greek novel; Eugene Vodolazkin
• Language: croatian
• Publication type: Scientific paper - Original scientific paper
• Publication status: Published
• Peer review: Peer review
• Publication version: Published version
• Journal title: Umjetnost riječi : Časopis za znanost o književnosti
• Numbering: vol. 64, no. 1-2, pp. 31-49
• p-ISSN: 0503-1583
• e-ISSN: 1849-1693
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:131:932384
• Publication: 2020
• Document URL: https://hrcak.srce.hr/247961
• Type of resource: Text
• Access conditions: Open access
• Created on: 2020-12-22 18:32:28