| Titre | Le poil et la fourrure [Autour du personnage de l'ours dans La fouille de Platonov] | |
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| Auteur | Annie Epelboin | |
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Revue |
Cahiers du monde russe Titre à cette date : Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique |
| Numéro | volume 33, no 1, janvier-mars 1992 | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Essai |
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| Page | 107-120 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Annie Epelboin, Of hair and fur. On the figure of the bear in Platonov's Foundation pit.
The enigma of the bear in The foundation pit lies in the ambivalence of his fur: does it signify a humanized animal, or a dehumanized man? This sign refers us to other abnormally hairy characters in works written between 1929 and 1934 (Elisei, Nastia's mother, and later Lichtenberg in Rubbish wind/Musornyi veter). In varying degrees, at that tragic turning point of Russian history, they represent the impossibility of surviving while keeping one's integrity and conscience intact. As virtual victor in the class struggle, sole survivor of this individual and mass destruction, he is the metaphorical hero of the Russian proletariat. And he presents us with a reverse image of the Siberian myth of the bear as founding father, heralding the age of the great regression. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/cmr_0008-0160_1992_num_33_1_2309 |
