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This article analyses L. Leonov’s novel «The Pyramid» from the perspective of hermeneutical and intertextual methodologies and identifies the coordinates of the text’s literary dialogue with the reader’s perception. The author shows that the hermeneutical and intertextual research ...

The analysis of the problem of “hereditary sin” in Dostoevsky’s novel The Brothers Karamazov is considered in the light of the discussion on the theory of “hereditary sin” within modern Orthodoxy. The author examines the “threshold situations” faced by the novel’s characters and arrives at a conclusion about ...

This article analyses W. Gombrowicz’s novel Pornografia as a parodic interpretation of Nietzsche’s overman philosophy. The myth of the fall of man from the Book of Genesis and the biblical and eschatological myth of Antichrist are considered as the interpretive key to the novel. 1. Гомбрович ...

The article continues a series of author’s works devoted to the study of various types of landscape in the works of French writers of the 19th century. A understudied novel by H. de Balzac “Seraphita” reveals the specific ways of creating the northern landscape. It is determined that Balzac’s landscape does not only create an additional emotional background, affect the perception of the characters of the characters,...

The article is dedicated to the spatial organization of the novel by M. R. James “Number 13”, published in his first book of collected stories. A shift in the poetical paradigm is noted: the transition from traditional Gothic topoi to modern urban space. According to the Gothic view on the distant past and ...

The article analyses the ways of Russification of Buddhism in the cycle of novels by Holm van Zaichik (V. Rybakov and I. Alimov) “Eurasian Symphony”. Buddhist ideas (for example, the idea of karma in its various forms), Buddhist images (in particular, architectural images), Buddhist vocabulary are integrated by the authors ...

The article deals with the peasant emigration to America in the novels of Henryk Sienkiewicz “For Daily Bread” and Vladimir Korolenko “Without Language”. The plot structure of the stories and the system of characters are contrasted for spatial oppositions “close — far” and “homeland — foreign land”....

The article examines the artistic realisation of the northern landscape and the system of images of the polar space’ nature in the novel by the French polar writer P.-E. Victor. The relevance of the research is supported not only by the relatively little-studied heritage of P.- E. Victor in Russia but also by the poor knowledge of the key aspects of his poetics. The logic of the ...

... 2019. Sep. 3. URL: https://www . newsnationtv.com (дата обращения: 17.03.2021). 7. NOW Corpus (News on the Web). URL: https://www.english-corpora.org/now/ (дата обращения: 20.04.2020). 8. Rushdie S. Midnight's Children: A Novel. 25 th Anniversary ed. N. Y., 2006. 9. Rushdie S. Shame: A novel. N. Y., 2008. 10. Sarangi J. Indian Variety of English: A Socio-linguistic Study // Studies in ELT, Linguistics and Applied Linguistics. Delhi, 2004. 11. Seth V. A Suitable Boy: A ...

The article is dedicated to the spatial organization of one of Ishiguro's lat­est novels "The Buried Giant". The authors focus on the process of changing of the aesthetic paradigm taking place in modern prose and affecting the foun­dations of its poetics. Special attention is paid to that kind of changes in the spatio-temporal ...

This article considers the functional significance of the attributive combination ‘captain's daughter’ as an essential and integral component of the semantic space of Alexander Pushkin’s novel. Placed in the title, it functions as the key sign of the work of fiction since it makes it possible to interpret implied meanings. Unlike the other, more frequent, lexical and grammatical units used as nominations in the text (‘Masha’, ‘Marya ...

The novel by the famous Soviet science fiction writer is analysed in the context of evangelical allusions and connotations. Biblical references in the text suggest a link between one of the main characters, the boy Astr, and the image of Christ. Although ...

The article contains an axiological analysis of the novel "The Prospector" by the French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio. The author of the novel employs a variety of artistic means to express the characters’ and his own value systems referring to the biblical myth of the knowledge tree ...

The article states that a short story “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” (1940) by Jorge Luis Borges is the pretext of Nikolay Kononv’s novel “Parade” (2015). The author shows, how Kononov reproduces and, at the same time, develops the main themes from Borges’ story, resorting to geographical and anagrammatic codes, the principle of metaphorical reflection and a play upon words....

The article describes the specific features of Kononov’s dialogue as the au­thor of the novel “Flaneur” with Polish messianism, which is presented by Mickiewicz’s “Books and the Pilgrimage of the Polish Nation” and Slovat­sky’s “Journey to the East”. Kononov’s parody and play with historical myths of Polishness allow the ...

The article establishes the boundaries of the musical analogy in the comments of H. Broch to the novel «Death of Virgil». In the novel, musicality is associated with the motives of ‘voice’ and ‘hearing’. Noting the propensity to onomatopoeia in the work of J. Joyce, H. Broch aims to depict the music of human speech. By doing so, he follows ...

The article presents the analysis of motif-structure of the novel by Richard Aldington «All men are enemies» (in particular, its relationship with the system of characters of the book). Sets of motifs corresponding to specific stages in the development of the image of the main character were identified; a nuclear-peripheral ...

... the scientists’ multidirectional game strategies is ex-plained by a change in their roles: they turn from subjects of the game into its objects ruled by the Nature, Time, and Chance. The central metaphor of gam-bling defines the composition of the novel and its genre, which can be defined as a postmodernist novel about the incomprehensibility of the nature of gen-ius. 1. Барт Р. От произведения к тексту // Барт Р. Избранные работы: Семиотика....

This article considers the textual dominant in the context of The Far-thest Place — one of the most famous novel of the modern German author Daniel Kehlmann. The organization of the novel’s text is described and parallels to other literature works are drawn. The article focuses on the influence of the 20th century modernist experiments on Kehlmann’s works ...

... world of the work is considered as one marked by binary oppositions of nature/civilisation, the world of children/adults, the ideal/the reality, the truth/a lie, fear/bravery, judgement/absolution, God/devil. The authors analyse the psychology of the novel’s main character. The central autobiographical image of the novel is interpreted in the context of religious and philosophical ideas about the duality of human nature and is connected to the features of adolescent psychology and age-related alienation ...

This article addresses the problem of the character’s personality development in the novels of G. Meyrink in the context of the modernist reconsideration of the Entwicklungsroman tradition. In view of the concepts of “subjective” novel, as well as the literary feature of Meyrink’s prose, the character is considered as a subject ...

This article is devoted to the oeuvre of the American author of the beginning of the 19th century Charles Brockden Brown who, being little known to the Russian reader, is considered in the USA the father of gothic novel. Addressing the problem of social and legal dependence in post-revolutionary America, Ch. B. Brown takes part in the formation of the new national ideology. 1. Matthiesen F.   O . The American Renaissance. N. Y., 1968. 2. Fielder L . Love and ...

Yu. Buida’s novel Boris and Gleb contains a number of intertextual relations to Old Russian literary works. A study into these relations helps not only establish literary parallels but also identify the text generating mechanisms characteristic of the contemporary ...

... of the past into the present and the future; and the transformation of monumentality that results in a problematization of the presumed final impeccability of the author and, ultimately, of the hero. The study examines Ernst J?nger’s intellectual novel “Eumeswil” through the lens of epic realism in its individualistic variant. It conceptualises the worldview and mode of action of the protagonist, the Anarch, portraying him as a right-flank soldier of freedom on the parade ground of post-history,...

... istoricheskoi poetiki [The Problems of Historical Poetics], 15 (3), pp. 70—93, https:// doi.org/10.15393/j9.art.2017.4481 (in Russ.). Kibalnik, S. A., 2020. The Nechaevtsy or the Petrashevites? (About Prototypes of the Main Characters in Fedor Dostoevsky's Novel “Demons”). Neizvestnyy Dostoev­skiy [The Unknown Dostoevsky], 2, pp. 119—141, https://doi.org/10.15393/j10.art . 2020.4582 (in Russ.). Kondrashov, P. N., 2020. Karl Marx on the Generic Nature of Man. Antinomii [Antinomies], 20 (3), pp. 22—48,...

In contemporary critical literature, there are various perspectives on the relationship be­tween the political and the poetic. Some view poetry as a form of politics, encapsulated in the aphorism ‘the word is a weapon’, while others argue that politics itself should embody the qualities of poetry, as suggested by Andy Merrifield's assertion that "politics should be like poetry." This article seeks to explore the poetic dimensions that underpin the political necessi­ty for poetry, namely...

The main functions realized by precedent names in the novel Trout Fishing in America by the American postmodern writer Richard Brautigan are identified. The study employed methods of contextual and intertextual analysis, as well as the method of exhaustive sam­pling. The identified sample of literary precedent ...

... article explores the symbolism of the forest in N. Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter.” This study aims not only to interpret the meanings associated with this topos but also to illus­trate its role in developing three internal plots within the novel. A brief overview of the for­est’s reception as a symbolic space in European culture reveals four primary interpretations: the forest as a source of materials and resources, the forest as hell, the forest as paradise, and the forest as a frontier ...

... Sériot, ed. Kvadratura smysla. Francuzskaya shkola analiza diskursa [The quadrature of meaning. French school of dis­course analysis]. Moscow, pp. 12—53 (in Russ.). Silant'ev, I. V., 2006. Gazeta i roman: Ritorika diskursnykh smeshenii [Newspaper and Novel: The Rhetoric of Discursive Confusions], Moscow (in Russ.). Smirnov, I. P., 2009. Videoryad. Istoricheskaya semantika kino [Visuals. Historical semantics of cinema]. Saint Petersburg (in Russ.). Sokolova, O. V., 2014. Tipologiya diskursov aktivnogo ...

... 2001. Pragnienie wiary. Tygodnik Powszechny [Universal weekly], 11-12 (60-61), p. 9 (in Pol.). Franaszek, A., 2011. Miłosz. Biografia [Miłosz. Biography]. Kraków (in Pol.). Gacheva, A. G., 2007. The problem of the universality of Salvation in the novel “The Brothers Karamazov” (in the context of the eschatological ideas of N. F. Fedorov and V. S. Solovyov) In: Roman F. M. Dostoevskogo “Brat'ya Karamazovy”: sovremennoe sostoyanie izucheniya [Dostoevsky's novel “The brothers Karamazov”: ...

... Continuity of Parks. In: Blow-up and Other Stories (Origi­nally titled End of the Game and Other Stories ). Translated by P. Blackburn. New York: Pantheon Books, pp. 63—65. Cortázar, J., 1960/1969. Drama i park. In: J. Cortázar. Slut på leken: noveller . Trans­lated by J. Sjögren. Stockholm: Bonnier, pp. 51—52. Cortázar, J., 1960/2007. Drama i park. In: J. Cortázar. Samlade noveller 1. Transla­ted by J. Sjögren. Stockholm: Modernista, pp. 367—368. Cortázar, J., 1960/2002. Parkar ...

Drawing on Narrative Theory, this article analyses the second French translation of The Brothers Karamazov as a counter-narrative for the novel’s first translation into French. In the mid-1880s, the critic Vogüé blocked the introduction of Dostoevsky’s narrative by predict­ing a clash with the French taste. Taking this warning into account, the first French transla­tors Halpérine-Kaminsky ...

... article analyses the structure of Bolotov’s memoirs in terms of their genre peculiarity. Text analysis shows that, when writing his memoirs, Bolotov used techniques borrowed from across various genres with which he was well acquainted. Those were the novel, the epistolary genre, the travelogue, the historical essay, etc. In the broad context of Bolotov’s works, the article shows that all those elements were not combined mechanically. A well-read and stylistically sensi­tive author, he was guided ...

This article analyses Yu. N. Ivanov’s novel In a Besieged City, which was inspired by the author’s battlefield memories. Yu. N. Ivanov pictures the city as he saw it in April 1945. It is shown how descriptions of the works of architecture and art contribute to the artistic understanding ...

... temporal domains. Two of them — the planes of the historical past and present — belong to the sphere of time. They are intrinsically linked by their reference to the metaphysical realm of eternity. 1. Ganichev, V., 2001. Admiral Ushakov. Historical novel. Roman-zhurnal XXI vek [Novel-magazine XXI century], 6, pp. 8—105. 2. Dal', V., 1956. Tolkovyi slovar' zhivogo velikorusskogo yazyka [Explanatory dictionary of the living Great Russian language]. Moscow. 3. D'yachenko, G., priest, 2007. Polnyi ...

This article analyses Bruno Schulz’s autobiographical novel Cinnamon Shops in the aspect of mythological thinking. It is stressed that the concept of ‘childhood’ is the foundation of his mythopoeia largely shaped by the author’s memories of his father and other members of the household. 1. Денисенко ...

This article examines the new genre created by L. M. Gasparov — the ‘interdiscursive novel’. The author analyses characteristics of the genre, in particular, its termhood, research features, flexible interaction with methodology, and journalistic style. These characteristics of ‘the interdiscursive novel’ reflect general trends ...

This article addresses Pushkin’s works, whose characters are based on real people who opposed conventional rules and laws and dedicated their life to fighting for personal and public freedom through following the path of crime. An analysis of the psychologically complex image of the novella’s main character shows that Pushkin paid special attention to the complicated and ambivalent personality of the robber who challenges his fate without pondering the meaning and value of human life. 1. Бочаров...

... Book about the Life of Kant’s Ideas (L. A. Kalinnikov. E. T. A. Hoffmann and I. Kant. Transcending of Romanticism). Kantian Journal, 2013, 3(45), pp. 112-114. (In Rus.) Lotman, Yu. M., 1995. Roman v stikhakh Pushkina “Eugene Onegin” [Pushkin’s Novel in Verse Eugene Onegin]. St. Petersburg: Iskusstvo. (In Rus). Pushkin, A., 1981. Eugene Onegin: a Novel in Verse. Translated from the Russian, with a commentary, by V. Nabokov. In 4 Volumes. Volume 1. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Pushkin,...

... historical position of Königsberg — a large provincial trade and cultural centre of East Prussia. The focus of the article is the historical and documentary analysis of the group ‘portrait’ of the participants of Königsberg meetings described in the novel Lebensläufe nach aufsteigender Linie by Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel, who served as a longstanding burgomaster of Königsberg, anonymously authored several books, and held friendly meetings at home. The author juxtaposes the epic portrait of Hippel ...

The article considers the results of the memory motive study in the novel of M. Maron, a modern German writer. The syncretic nature of memory is analyzed in terms of memory and forgetting as necessary components of this phenomenon. For this study, the process of purposeful ousting certain fragments connected to the late ...

... picture of the world make it possible to present events from different narrative angles, characterizing the hero and his actions in broad value coordinates. Priority in the genre structure of the A. I. Kuprin’s “legend” becomes the narrative of the novel, focusing the reader’s attention on the role of the category of chance in the fate of the hero, thus establishing an analogy of events in his life with gambling, which can have any outcome. The genre structure of the novel is formed by the personality ...

... emotive-evaluative meanings of the work, de-automating its perception by the recipient, ensuring and updating the dialogue between the text and the reader. The purpose of this study is a multi-aspect description of the reflexives contained in Evgeny Vodolazkin’s novel “Justification of the Island”. The use of a complex research methodology that combines functional, interpretive and receptive types of analysis, allowed us to come to some conclusions. According to the main one, reflexive as a meta-statement ...

The relevance of the topic is determined by the request of modern literary study to revise the Soviet ideological interpretations of Decembrism, as well as by the task of thorough analysis of Bulat Okudzhava’s novel “Journey of Dilettantes” (1971–1977), an iconic book of the late Soviet era. The most important artistic statement of the writer is considered in the context of the “Decembrism myth” of the Soviet intelligentsia, which achieved the peak ...

The article analyzes the actualization of the dialectical unity of “friend-foe” on the example of the German-language novel G. Radtke “Die Tätowierten”for young adults. The study relies on the research of the ideological attitudes of the GDR through the analysis of theoretical sources, the method of continuous sampling, linguistic analysis of contextual blocks of ...

The article, dedicated to the first novel of James Joyce, a famous Irish writer, shows the protagonist’s path to maturing considering the impact that home tutoring, educational institutions of various types as well as self-education had on him. In the schools under the tutelage of the ...

... Considering the essence of the “poet of poets” (Heidegger), the authors relate complex discourses to the hermeneutic key for understanding the mys­tery of Hölderlin. They make an attempt at interpreting one of the mysteries in his work, reflected in the novel "Hyperion". The article draws conclusions about the action of “new light” in this novel and other works of Hölderlin. The secret of Hölderlin is interpreted through the standpoint of some theories of Russian cosmism. 1. Апулей....

... Интерпретация художественных образов Ф. М. Достоев­ско­го средствами кинематографа // Русская словесность. 2012. № 3. С. 69—77. 16. Donoghue Е. Room : Script. Based on the novel by Emma Donoghue. 2014. URL: https://www.raindance.org/scripts/room_script.pdf (дата обращения: 08.03.2021). 17. Donoghue Е. Room. N. Y., 2015. 18. Jakobson R. O. Shifters, Verbal Categories and the Russian Verb // Jakob­son R. ...

The novel “Magetizer” is viewed within the intellectual and ideological context of E. T. A. Hoffmann’s era, who was characterized, on the one hand, by the progress of scientific knowledge, and on the other, by the success of imagi­nary parascientific ...