Izvestiya of Saratov University.
ISSN 1817-7115 (Print)
ISSN 2541-898X (Online)


mythologization of history

V. Sorokin’s Concept of History and Its Artistic Representation in the Novel Day of the Oprichnik

The article researches the meaningful components of V. Sorokin’s artistic world picture: the idea of the ‘Russian metaphysics’ and ‘historic trauma’. The universal mythologem of oprichnina serves as the main means of their artistic representation.