The Concept of Loneliness in the Work of Parisian Emigrants Lev Shestov and Georgy Adamovich

Abstract

The article deals with the concept of loneliness within the framework of the work and indirect dialogue of Parisian emigrants, philosopher Lev Shestov and poet Georgy Adamovich. Consistently revealing the theme through the preceding cultural tradition (solitude in S0ren Kierkegaard, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy), other motifs and concepts (spirituality, silence, death, despair), various representations will allow us to examine and analyse the individual pictures of the philosopher's and poet's worlds reflected in their work, to connect them with the emigration experience and to define the particular notions of “loneliness” as the last words of philosophy and law on earth, as the individual's break with “others” and as the consequence of a break with the homeland.