Literature and ideology

Abstract

The article examines the evolution of the perception of the image of Andrei Stolz, the hero of the novel by I.A. Goncharov's "Oblomov", in various ideological discourses of Russia and the West from the moment of the publication of the work to the present time. The figure of Andrei Stolz in various research practices evolves into a kind of mythologeme and ideologeme that helps explain many trends in modern life. This dynamics in the assessment of the hero is characterized by a vector of movement from complete rejection of Andrei Stolz (a non-Russian character of the novel, "alien", because he is German by ethnicity and Lutheran by religion, despite the fact that his mother is Russian) to instructions the fact that this particular hero is one of the most demanded personalities - not just carriers of the author's conceptual ideas, who believed that the "crossing" of Russian soulfulness and German practicality should create the "correct" type of human nature in Russia, but also exponents new era.