Chapter 4: (The North): 'Afrika'
Philip Cavendish
From Mining for Jewels: Evgenii Zamiatin and the Literary Stylization of Rus' (2000), pp. 83-114, doi:10.59860/td.c26b186
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| Part of the book: Mining for Jewels Philip Cavendish MHRA Texts and Dissertations 51 Maney Publishing for the Modern Humanities Research Association Abstract. The short story 'Afrika', which Zamiatin published in issue no. 4/5 of the journal Severnye zapiski for 1916, explores the twilight zone between dream and reality. Its use of a seemingly celestial female figure, associated symbolically with the colour white to imply the existence of a transcendental reality, to a great extent anticipates Zamiatin's reading of the eternal feminine theme as it appears in the work both of Sologub and the Symbolist poet Aleksandr Blok. Full text. This contribution is published as Open Access and can be downloaded as a PDF, or viewed as a PDF in your web browser, here: |
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