THE IMAGE AND PROTOTYPE IN SHMELEV’S SHORT NOVEL “TOWARD A NEW LIFE”
I. S. Shmelev began his literary career as a children’s writer, his works were published in such publications for young people as “Spring” and “Young Russia”. The article deals with Shmelev’s short novel “Toward a new life”, one of his earliest works. Scene motives of early writer’s prose are oft...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Russian |
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Petrozavodsk State University
2015-11-01
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| Series: | Проблемы исторической поэтики |
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| Online Access: | http://poetica.pro/files/redaktor_pdf/1456400341.pdf |
| Summary: | I. S. Shmelev began his literary career as a children’s writer, his
works were published in such publications for young people as “Spring” and
“Young Russia”. The article deals with Shmelev’s short novel “Toward a new
life”, one of his earliest works. Scene motives of early writer’s prose are oft en
repeated, aligned with each other. The motif of a “cherished meeting” of the a
child with an adult, who becomes a mentor and assistant of the latter in
choosing his way of life, is one of those recurring motifs. The article is devoted
to comparative analysis of one of the central images of the story “Toward a
new life” — Professor V. V. Fryazin, who became a mentor of the main character,
and his real prototype K. A. Timiryazev. Comparative analysis is conducted
both at the level of biographical data, and at the level of textual echoes
with the writings and ideas of Timiryazev. The analytical material for the
article was the short novel “Toward a new life” published in 1907. The study of
its manuscripts kept in the Research Department of Manuscripts of the Russian
State Library allows us to show better the relationship between the artistic
image and its prototype. |
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| ISSN: | 1026-9479 1026-9479 |