Open AccessCounterpoint as a contentive and stylistic device in the intermedial genre (about Viktor Shenderovich’s A Flute Solo)
Author(s) -
Элеонора Лассан
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
literatura/literatūra
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1648-1143
pISSN - 0258-0802
DOI - 10.15388/litera.2019.2.8
Subject(s) - counterpoint , flute , depiction , tragedy (event) , art , literature , fantasy , musical , plot (graphics) , aesthetics , art history , sociology , pedagogy , statistics , mathematics
In 2015, Vremya Publishing House issued A Flute Solo, a book by V. Shenderovich, a multigenre and, according to the author of the article, intermedial work, since the peculiarities of the content of a political satire and a tragedy, a farce and a fantasy on the one hand and some features of musical pieces, a fugue in particular, on the other hand, have merged there. The author provides a detailed characterization of the plot, constructed as a grotesque depiction of the reality, the composition as relating a verbal text to a piece of music, and the symbolic value of certain elements, allowing not to agree to the definition of the book as being “desperately hopeless”.