Semiotics of the superhuman: the superhuman images in A. Dumas' trilogy about the musketeers


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The article explicates the philosophical motives of A. Dumas' trilogy about the musketeers.
A comparative study of the socio-political views of A. Dumas and F. Nietzsche is carried out. The features of the trilogy poetics are analyzed. The ideological and figurative content of Dumas' novels is revealed in the context of the teachings of F. Nietzsche, O. Spengler, W. Sombart. The main motives of the Dumas’ trilogy and Cervantes' novel about Don Quixote are parallelized. The article substantiates the thesis that the main motive of the Dumas’ trilogy about the musketeers is the image of the superhuman.

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Semiotics of the superhuman: images of the superman in A. Dumas' trilogy about the musketeers

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Vyacheslav Faritov

Samara State Technical University

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Email: vfarvt@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2270-4941
SPIN-code: 2668-5946
Scopus Author ID: 57192178126
ResearcherId: С-4223-201

Associate Professor, Professor of the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences and Humanities

Russian Federation, 244, Molodogvardeiskaya, Samara, 443100, Russian Federation

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