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Romanova Kseniya S.,
Candidate of Philology, Senior Teacher of the
Department of the English Language and Professional Communication
Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation
e-mail: ksuromanova@inbox.ru
IstinaResearcherID: 30793891
The article compares the novel by the American writer Henry Miller “Tropic of Cancer” with that by his «literary successor», a Russian-language Estonian writer Andrew Ivanov “The Hanuman’s Journey to Lolland”. The author of the research identifies common places and differences in Miller’s and Ivanov’s interpretation of a man’s corporeal facet as well as the factors that have influenced their artistic comprehension of corporality, seeking to answer the question why the autobiographical character of Ivanov who follows the American transcendental literary tradition, fails to reach the feeling of metaphysical freedom in cultivating the body that reveals itself to Miller’s narrator. The author concludes that following Nietzsche’s idea of dionysianism and getting the support of his perceptions about the unconsciousness as a key to the understanding of a man’s soul from his beloved Anaïs Nin, and also finding their confirmation in the oeuvre of contemporary modernist writers, Miller overturns the traditional notions of morality and ethics to show that a refusal to think rationally and conventionally and the liberation of vital energy residing in a human being, can lead to a more harmonious perception of the world and to the recognition of a divine sense of life. Conversely, Ivanov’s character, who protests against the conventionalities imposed by culture, leading hedonistic “life in accordance with his own rules”, feels his complete dependence on circumstances, and that reveals the illusiveness of the freedom he describes. The illegal immigrants environment reducing a person to his/ her physiological needs and leading him/ her to moral degradation, and the doom to live in such environment prevent Eugene from perceiving the body as a tool for getting creative insights and form in his consciousness an image of the body as a jail.
Keywords: emigration, corporality, physiological, spiritual transformation, freedom, unconsciousness, sacred, transcendent, superconsciousness
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