MOTIFS OF “NATIVE” AND “ANOTHER” IN THE STRUCTURE OF THE “DOTTED LINE-NOVEL” “KHURRAMABAD” BY A. VOLOS

Abstract

The article deals with the role of the oppositions of «native» and «other» in the novel «Khurramabad» by A. Volos (2000). From «locus amoenus» Khurramabad turns into a dangerous place marked by violence and grief. All narratives of the novel are organized in chronological order: from the early 1930s to the 1990s, which was the time of mass departure of Russians and the civil war. Their sequence is due first to the Russian mastering of “another” («foreign») world, and then catastrophic loss of native city, property, and finally emigration to an unfriendly Russian countryside. The growing alienation of the characters ends with the author’s own alienation in the final essay «Khujand Dotted Line».