“The Wonderful Doctor”: the evolution of the image of a doctor in pre-revolutionary and Soviet literature

UDC 821.161.1-2/.3+61

https://doi.org/10.20339/PhS.2-23.095                    

Volchkevich Maya A.,

Candidate of Philology, Deputy Director of the Program

Middlebury College in Russia

e-mail: mayavol@yahoo.com

In the article the author addresses the topic of the evolution of the image of a doctor in the Russian literature of the 19th century (in particular, in the works of A.P. Chekhov). The author shows the changes that the image of a doctor in the literature of the twentieth century has undergone (the image of the heroine of the play by A.N. Arbuzov “Tanya”, the image of a doctor in the novel by B.L. Pasternak “Doctor Zhivago”).

Keywords: evolution of the image of a doctor in Russian literature, Chekhov, A. Arbuzov’s play “Tanya”, “Doctor Zhivago”).