Money and the Ontology of Exchange in Slavic Literatures
Four works of Slavic literature, belonging to different literary genres and historical periods, are examined in the light of the their sujets which focus on money as actuality and phenomenology of a system of exchange. It is found that the universality of the notion of money is linked to its symbolic value and the fact that it constitutes the phenomenological (existential) aspect of the metaphysical split which determines all human character motivations.