Mirosława Michalska-Suchanek
Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, Volume 14, Issue 3, 2019, s. 203 - 217
https://doi.org/10.4467/20843933ST.19.018.10676Contemporary Russian-Israeli Literature by the Example of Dennis Sobolev’s Novel Legends of Mount Carmel. Fourteen Stories about Love and Time
The great aliyah infl uenced the nature of Russian-language literature in Israel at the end of 1980s and the beginning of 1990s. Not only did it increase the number of creators writing in Russian, but it also became a potential that changed the nature of the latest Russian-Israeli literature. The basis for its evolution is the process of deminorization (the concept of Roman Katsman). It reveals itself mainly (though not only) in the revision of the subjects that have been covered hitherto – literature expands the spectrum of the world view and aims towards universalism; it becomes ambiguous, fi lled with philosophical thought, metaphysics and mysticism. Evolution is revealed not only in the content-ideological layer, but also in the composition of works. The character of the latest Russian-Israeli literature perfectly refl ects the work of Dennis Sobolev, especially his second novel, Legends of Mount Carmel. Fourteen Stories about Love and Time.