Entropy as an Existential Problem in "The Sun of the Dead" by I.S. Shmelev
Journal: Philology & Human
Year: 2020

The purpose of the research is to highlight the problem of being and non-being in the work of I.S. Shmelev based on the material of his epic The Sun of the Dead, which rests upon the writer's memoirs about repressions and famine in the Crimea in the early 1920s. The goal is achieved by conducting the analysis of ontological and existential units of philosophy which develop in the text through a comparison of two heroes who pass spiritual and physical tests in a social catastrophe. The will to li