Icon vs Spectacle: Tertullian and Russian Classical Literature (“On the Edge of the World” by N. S. Leskov)
Olga Evdokimova, Ph.D. in Philology, Full Professor, Department of Russian Literature, Herzen University (St Petersburg)
Nikolay Sukhov, M.A. Student, Saint Petersburg State University (St Petersburg)
pp. 168–178
In this work, the author studies the character of perception and the ways ofinheritance of the texts, ideas, verbal devices and religious intuitions of thetheologian of the early Christian epoch Tertullian by author of XIXth century N. S. Leskov and the reflection of them in the poetics of his story “At the Edge ofthe World”.
Keywords: Tertullian, Leskov, poetics, icon, painting, pictorial art of modernhistory, show, verbal icon, paradox, the image of Jesus Christ.