The reclaiming of the “izja naja slovesnost’”: observations on the “proethic” language of Sasha Sokolov

In the context of the so-called “writing as resistance” (Caramitti 2010), it is possible to outline a tendency towards the recovery of historical continuity within Russian literature. This recuperation is achieved through the (re-)appropriation of the antique Russian literary and cultural tradi-tions, inseparable from the religious element, and through the retrieval of numerous motifs linked to the natural world, in opposition to the So-viet “grand narrative”. In this regard, Sokolov’s work proves to be exemplary, and it is thus analysed in the present research.