%0 Journal Article
%T The Survival of Faith in Solzhenitsyn¡¯s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and ¡°Matryona¡¯s House¡±
%A Wawan Eko Yulianto
%J -
%D 2019
%R https://doi.org/10.9744/kata.21.1.42-50
%X Abstract Faith is a vital element in the works of Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn, a Russian writer who experienced the notorious Gulag and difficultly in a strongly atheistic country. However, faith is never a simplistic topic for Solzhenitsyn, especially writing in a time when religion was officially shoved aside from the public discourse. In the light of a set of views on religion inferred from Terry Eagleton¡¯s essay, this paper aims to explain the anomalous religiosity as seen in the narrators of Solzhenitsyn¡¯s novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and short story ¡°Matryona¡¯s House.¡± According to the Eagleton¡¯s model, there are three stages of religiosity, namely, 1) omission of religion¡¯s otherworldly and pure ritualistic elements, 2) acceptance of mentally-empowering potentials of religion, and 3) internalization of the humanistic values of religion. The analysis concludes with a notion that One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and ¡°Matryona¡¯s House¡± represent an evolution of faith that has gone through a period of challenge. On a sidenote, the analysis also confirms the dialogic nature of Solzhenitsyn¡¯s works, in which one topic is presented through contradictory voices
%K faith
%K ritualistic elements
%K mental empowerment
%K humanistic values
%K Russian literature
%U http://kata.petra.ac.id/index.php/ing/article/view/19238