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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Remizov, Alexei

Titel

GRIGORY AND KSENIA

Ist Teil von

• The Little Devil and Other Stories, 2021, p.293-308

Ort / Verlag

New York Chichester, West Sussex: Columbia University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• REMIZOV’S VERSION OF THE OLD RUSSIAN TEXT STRESSES THE ROLE OF FATE IN HUMAN LIFE. IN THE SLAVIC PRE-CHRISTIAN TRADITION, THE SUDICE, THE WISE WOMEN, DETERMINE DESTINY WITH THEIR SPELLS. A LOVE TRIANGLE—YAROSLAV, KSENIA, GRIGORY—CAUSES PAIN AND LOSS OF FRIENDSHIP. BUT SACRIFICE LEADS TO THE CREATION OF A HOLY PLACE, A MONASTERY. There is another world in the world—not the primordial one, but the work of human hands—the will of a determined soul— enchanted places: for happiness, for death, for quiet. I see three candles—they illuminate the world. And I see flame: black flame; blinking,