CHOLERA MORBUS, MORBUALITY, MORBUALNY CODE

Abstract

The phenomenon of the disease, which has recently become the object of study of many humanities disciplines, is fruitfully investigated in literary studies, including in dissertations. The article examines the validity of the introduction of the term “morbual code”, the content of the concept, approaches to the analysis of works of art with “medical plots”. Attention is drawn to the “problem areas” associated with the understanding of “morbidity”, as well as to the intersections of Russian literature of the XIX and XX-XXI centuries in terms of the formation of a special optics that has become decisive for the poetics of morbidity at the present time.