The Sorrowful Way to the East in A. S. Neverov’s Story “Tashkent, the City of Bread”
https://doi.org/10.18384/2949-5008-2025-6-100-112
Abstract
Aim. To review analytically the image of the East in A. S. Neverov’s novella “Tashkent, the City of Bread” and to study the plot-forming motif of the protagonist’s journey to Uzbekistan.
Methodology. The research involved comparative, historical, literary, and biographical methods. Analysis of the semantic accents in Neverov’s story based on the writer’s observation of his compatriots’ fate during social historical upheaval in post-revolutionary Russia in the 1920s is the main concern of the study.
Results. The analysis has showed how the main character’s worldview was changing from an idealized understanding of the East to a realistic view of the world, and then to Russian peasants’ behavior again in the finale of the story. This aspect is revealed in the text due to attention to numerous plot-compositional links and details that made it possible to trace the image of the East, tragic and dramatic situations, and fellow travelers encountered by the character. Based on the results of the study, a conclusion was drawn about the common work path of Russian and Eastern people.
Research implications consist in defining the semantics of key episodes in the story, reflecting the correlation between the protagonist’s journey and the proportion of thousands of people caught up in the destructive changes that engulfed the country. Practical significance lies in the potential application of the article’s materials to interpret Neverov’s late works in relation to the historical reality of which he was a contemporary, as well as in the educational and pedagogical work of university and schoolteachers.
About the Author
K. V. Sanatov
Federal State University of Education
Россия
Россия
Kirill V. Sanatov – Postgraduate Student, Department of Russian and Foreign Literature, Federal State University of Education, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Russian Language and Literature, State University of Humanities and Technology
Moscow
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