Rosja I „reszta Świata”: Sołżenicynowska Recepcja Modelowa a Możliwości Uniwersalnego Odczytania Epopei Czerwone Koło

Abstract

This paper gathers Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s selected statements relating to thereception of his most significant work of art The Red Wheel. The conditions of “properreading” are depicted in Solzhenitsyn’s interviews, journalistic texts and fragmentsof the narrative included in his epic. The author of the paper explores the writer’srequirements that concern the influence of literature and a reader’s response to thehistorical novel. The reconstruction of Solzhenitsyn’s model reception also enablesto define the writer’s attitude towards his reader. The author of The Red Wheel believesin the social role of literature and the universal meaning of a literary text concentratedon truth, thus Solzhenitsyn’s approach stresses the ethical dimension of literature andthe figure of writer as a guide.