The Solovki text. Part 2

The article is an attempt to describe the "Solovki text" of Russian literature. Its second part is devoted to the modern version of the "Solovki text", which can be called the experience of national historical typification. Yuri Nagibin's Journey to the Islands (1986), Yuri Brodsky's The Paradoxes of Solovki (1998), Zakhar Prilepin's Resident (2014) and Ev-geny Vodolazkin's The Aviator (2016) are analyzed. The authors, each in their own way, adhere to an anthropological description code. However, they deviate from the description of Solzhenitsyn, focusing not on the general history of the Gulag system, but specifically on the history of Solovki, proceeding from the desire to show the continuity of this history, a recurring return to the same situation-constellation. At the same time, the authors emphasise the national significance of Solovki that are not only a source, a starting point and a synecdoche of the Gulag network that stretches all over the country, but also a symbolic topos, important for the history of the whole country. Nagibin, Brodsky, Prilepin and Vodolazkin show the historical continuity of Solovki, originating in the Middle Ages and actual to this day: the ambivalence of the symbolic connotations of the topos, the vibration of its meanings between the poles of the many-valued holy place, the secluded abode of spirituality and faith, on the one hand, and the to-pos of violent rejection from society, a topos, in which the power of the centre is asserted in the most cruel way, on the other. A conclusion is drawn about the modelling semantics of Solovki, which is a symbol of traumatic historical memory. The options for reconciliation and acceptance of the national past determine the contemporary dynamics of the "So-lovki text".

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