https://doi.org/10.31261/pr.22845
This paper focuses on the interpretation of Oksana Vasyakina’s novel Wound. The analysis is methodologically based on Ewa Domanska’s original concept of necros. In the process of close reading the Russian writer’s text, the author creatively adapts Domanska’s scholarly observations, which are presented in her monograph Necros: An Introduction to the Ontology of the Dead Body. This approach addresses three thematic areas that correspond with three main parts of the paper, i.e. the agency of the dead body, the cyclical nature of life and the taboo of death, and the problem of space. Taking advantage of the concept of necros in the process of interpretation allows the author to treat the literary text as a potential “rescue history”, to consider the dead body from the point of view of ecological materialism, and to rethink dominant discourse on death. In the conclusion, the author notes that by referring to intimate memories, Vasyakina domesticates the topic of death and changes its previous taboo status, thereby linking the novel with the ideas associated with the geological and postsecular turns. The tangibility of textures and the materiality of descriptions found in the Russian novel allow us to imagine the past differently and understand culture as the cultivation, care and protection of natural resources.
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Vol. 193 No. 1 (2026)
Published: 2026-03-29
10.31261/pr
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