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Comparing The Bible, Gospel And Pagan Motifs In A Provincial Tale

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Bible, Gospel and Pagan Motifs in the Story by Yevgeny Zamyatin “A Provincial Tale” (“Ujezdnoje”) The objective of this article is to reveal one of the essential semantic aspects of the story “A Provincial Tale” referring to the controversy of the 1910s on the role of Christian and pagan elements of the Russian national character while analyzing the plot and motifs of the story. The cyclical framework and internal cumulation of episodes from the life of the hero constitute the plot of the story. The beginning and the end associated with the father figure refer to the Old Testament story of the expulsion from Paradise and the Gospel story of the prodigal son. Internal chain of events represents a number of violations of the Commandments by the
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