Article

Name: MORTAL DISCOURSE IN TOLSTOY’S NOVEL «RESURRECTION»

Authors: E. A. Masolova

Novosibirsk State Technical University, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation

In the section The Plot and the Thesaurus of a Death

Abstract: This article treats of the change of Tolstoy's attitude to death. It's analyzed a mortal discourse of the novel «Resurrection», where power devotes people to the premature death, the country becomes a necrospace, and death comes to an ordinary phenomenon, which is unemotionally perceived. Drawing a spiritual and physical death, Tolstoy combines a general and close up images of death and approves future resurrection of humanity that is embodied in the title of the novel, in the image of nature, in the Nehludov's quests. Weak people, who are tormented by evil ones, die as well as those, who are ignored the will of God. Nehludov becomes an associate of God and overcomes the fear of death. A mortal and an artistic discourses generate philosophical and publicistic discourses and convert to life-affirming Christian discourse in the last chapter of «Resurrection» which is projected on the whole novel and turns the story of Nehludov's errors to the story of falling apart from God and His subsequent acquisition.

Keywords: mortal, artistic, philosophical, publicistic, christian discourses, tolstoy's novel «resurrection»

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