DACHA AS TOPOS IN THE LITERATURE OF THE 20 CENTURY AND IN E. G. VODOLAZKIN'S NOVEL “AVIATOR”

Филологический класс

关键词: dacha;    noble estate;    topos;    novels;    russian literature;    russian writers;    writing;   

DOI  :  10.26710/fk18-02-22

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The paper is a study of the topos of the noble estate (manor) and the dacha according to the datal of the Russian fiction prose and poetry both of the turn of 19-20 cc. (K. M. Fofanov, N. A. Leykin, A. P. Chekhov, A. M. Gorky, D. S. Merezhkovsky,Z. N. Gippius, A. P. Kamensky, A. A. Blok, B. K. Zaitsev, etc.) and of the turn of 20-21 cc. (B. A. Akhmadulina, T. A. Beck, S. M.Gandlevsky, I. A. Kabysh, A. N. Varlamov, etc.). We seek for their accelerated convergence in the Russian literature of 1920-1980s(B. L. Pasternak, Yu. V. Trifonov, A. G. Bitov, Sasha Sokolov, etc.).In E. G. Vodolazkin's novel The Aviator (2016), the focal disposition of the topos of the noble estate and the dacha becomesthe popular in the late 19 — first third of the XX century area Siverskaya, laid to the South-West of St. Petersburg, along with flickering discreteness and counterpoints of accompanying narratives and representations . Siverskaya makes sense to the “aviator” mainconcept of the novel and as generalising image of the 20 century in the whole mood, as waiting God's judgement. The purpose of thepaper is to explore the uniqueness of this estate–dacha aspect of the spatial structure of the narrative in its temporal and receptivedynamics.Through use of By applying historical-literary and historical-functional methodics, some patterns of narrative analysis, as wellas structural-semiotic, mythopoetic and geocultural approaches to text analysis we prove that the locus of Siverskaya becomes a kindof field of different cultural-historical, neo-mythological and stylistic metamorphoses, ranged from household-oriented sketches ofcountry life at the beginning of the 20century to symbolic image of the eternity, as real being, free from violent determination ofhistorical events, policies and ideologies and genealogically associated with the “estate text” of the Russian classics. This effect isproduced in the novel by poetics of anachronisms, working as mean of reactualization of demanded topoi.The conclusions are relevant for the verification of the panorama of the Russian national topic, where the topoi of the noble estate and the dacha are crucial. They are also seminal for understanding axiology and communicative strategies of the Russian proseat the turn of 20-21 centuries.

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