"PSYCHIC POISONING" SYSTEM: ON "DRIVING TO MADNESS" MOTIVE IN THE NOVEL BY A. R. BELYAEV "PROFESSOR DOWELL'S HEAD"
Nazarov Ivan Aleksandrovich
M. A. Bulgakov Museum, Moscow
Abstract. The article analyzes one of the motives of Alexander Romanovich Belyaev’s creative work - the motive of madness. The author considers the original interpretation of madness theme in the Soviet literature of the 1920-1930s by the example of the novel by A. R. Belyaev "Professor Dowell’s Head": specificity of madman and madhouse image, motives of verification and simulation of mental illness, social-philosophical problem of establishing the border between sanity and madness. The special attention is paid to the motive of "driving to madness" as a complex (audial and visual) influence on characters’ mental health called "psychic poisoning".
Key words and phrases: А. Р. Беляев, феномен безумия, образ безумца, образ сумасшедшего дома, доведение до сумасшествия, мотив изоляции, A. R. Belyaev, phenomenon of madness, madman image, madhouse image, driving to madness, isolation motive
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