Ruslan’s point of view also goes beyond the ideas already established in previous literature, focusing particularly on loyalty, love, trust, and faith – each with respect to his relationship with humanity. At the end of his life, he loses his love for humanity, but maintains faith in the Service.ĪNALYSIS: Faithful Ruslan takes an unconventional approach to Russian prison literature through its perspective, creating a new angle from which to examine common themes of freedom, morality, and state allegiance. Ruslan refuses to concede the fight and suffers a fatal beating. But when the dogs attempt to keep the perceived prisoners in line as they were trained, the workers react violently and beat the dogs.
Ruslan and the other guard dogs return to the camp, thinking the Service once again requires their service. Ruslan, however, never loses faith in “the Service,” believing that a train with the prisoners aboard will soon return, and he takes up a mission guarding a former prisoner known as “the Shabby Man.” The narrative injects memories from Ruslan’s past, including those about his training and the relationships he formed with dogs and people.Įventually, the train that Ruslan had been waiting for does arrive, but rather than prisoners, it is filled with workers coming to repurpose the camp as a cellulose fiber factory. Ruslan’s master is unable to shoot him and the other dogs as ordered, so he chases them out of the camp, and the dogs resettle in a nearby town. PLOT SUMMARY: When the Gulag labor camp that Ruslan, a prison guard dog, works at is closed, the canine protagonist of this novel is left without the job he had grown to love. Georgi Vladimov (born Georgii Nikolaievich Volosevich) Crime or Punishment: Russian Narratives of Incarceration Main Menu Introduction About Texts Analysis Comparison | Expansion | Contextualization Synthesis Feedback José Vergara 9d7e6dfed9d57006cb53f94a7107fbf1500f2da2 Faithful Ruslan 1 T21:40:50+00:00 Alice McGrath b7aea6f9eb931a0b52c3f000b791e5f42278a98f 1 1 Georgi Vladimov (born Georgii Nikolaievich Volosevich) T21:40:50+00:00 Swarthmore Russian 037 1975 Georgi Vladimov (born Georgii Nikolaievich Volosevich) 54.96667,73.38333 Alice McGrath b7aea6f9eb931a0b52c3f000b791e5f42278a98f Faithful Ruslan Please enable Javascript and reload the page.
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