New type of the hero in stories by Anatoly Andreev
The paper analyses the stories of the Russian-speaking Belarusian writer Anatoly Andreev, who proposed a theory of person-centrism based on the perception of a literary hero as a personality. The characters of the Belarusian writer present a new, modern kind of a “superfluous” hero. They are people...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Institute of Modern Humanitarian Researches
2019-07-01
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| Series: | Studia Humanitatis |
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| Online Access: | http://st-hum.ru/en/node/799/ |
| Summary: | The paper analyses the stories of the Russian-speaking Belarusian writer Anatoly Andreev, who proposed a theory of person-centrism based on the perception of a literary hero as a personality. The characters of the Belarusian writer present a new, modern kind of a “superfluous” hero. They are people of creative professions, who have more mental capacity than everyone else has, and this is their problem. They rush around in search of themselves and their destiny but face social disapproval and in the end remain completely alone. |
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| ISSN: | 2308-8079 |