The Linguistic Philosophy of Evgeny Vodolazkin: The Aviator Novel

Abstract

The article analyses the text of Evgeny Vodolazkin’s novel The Aviator (2016). The focus of the writer defending “the principle of personality” is the inner world of a man in the context of time. The author aims to interpret the linguistic philosophy of the author of the novel. The approaches of linguo-axiological analysis used in the work make it possible to formulate certain conclusions. It is established that the word, conversation, and phrase are instruments of philosophical interpretation of the key problem of the personality correlation, as well as of biographical and historical time. The word, according to the writer, operates as an axiologically marked sign of time, reveals some influence of time on the person, allows for the development of a personal lexicon and on its basis for the assessment not only of the events of their own life, but also historical and revolutionary events. The author characterises the signs of poetics of dialogue, which comes to the surface in the philosophical understanding of the phenomenon of an intimate conversation, allowing each of the partners to verbalise an independent worldview position. The statement of the idea of self-sufficiency of personality is shown in the analytical relation to the absolute truth conveyed by conventional informal expressions in the form of phrases. The novel demonstrates the harmful influence of revolutionary ideological dogmas on the person. The eternal truth reflected in the Scripture is unshakable. The aphorisms based on the axiological experience of the bearer of national culture support the personality-oriented character of the linguistic philosophy of Evgeny Vodolazkin.

Keywords

• аксиологическая маркированность
• беседа
• время
• вымысел
• лингвистическая философия
• личность
• поэтика диалогичности
• слово
• фраза.