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“PSYCHIC POISONING” SYSTEM: ON “DRIVING TO MADNESS” MOTIVE IN THE NOVEL BY A. R. BELYAEV “PROFESSOR DOWELL'S HEAD”
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Ivan Aleksandrovich Nazarov
M. A. Bulgakov Museum, Moscow
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Submitted:
March 1, 2017
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Abstract.
The article analyzes one of the motives of Alexander Romanovich Belyaev’s creative work - the motive of madness. The author considers the original interpretation of madness theme in the Soviet literature of the 1920-1930s by the example of the novel by A. R. Belyaev “Professor Dowell’s Head”: specificity of madman and madhouse image, motives of verification and simulation of mental illness, social-philosophical problem of establishing the border between sanity and madness. The special attention is paid to the motive of “driving to madness” as a complex (audial and visual) influence on characters’ mental health called “psychic poisoning”.
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Key words and phrases:
А. Р. Беляев
феномен безумия
образ безумца
образ сумасшедшего дома
доведение до сумасшествия
мотив изоляции
A. R. Belyaev
phenomenon of madness
madman image
madhouse image
driving to madness
isolation motive
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