The “Road to Nowhere” and “Autobiographical Story” by A. S. Grin: a comparison of the “prison theme”
Journal: Izvestia Ural Federal University Journal Series 1 Issues in Education Science and Culture
Year: 2023

This article conducts a comparative analysis of the so-called “prison theme” in two works by A.S. Grin, namely, the “Autobiographical Story” and the novel “The Road to Nowhere”. The “Autobiographical Story” is considered as an objectively unreliable but subjectively reliable source of many episodes in the writer’s life, including his time spent in the prisons of Sevastopol and Feodosia. These episodes were almost entirely reproduced in Grin’s latest novel, “The Road to Nowhere”. In the process o