Open AccessDOCUMENTARY AND ARTISTIC CHRONOTOPE IN THE NOVEL BY I. S. NIKITIN «THE DIARY OF THE SEMINARIAN»
Author(s) -
Nataliya V. Volodina,
Nikolai A. Degtyarev
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
verhnevolžskij filologičeskij vestnik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2499-9679
DOI - 10.20323/2499-9679-2020-4-23-8-15
Subject(s) - chronotope , perception , relation (database) , character (mathematics) , illusion , aesthetics , value (mathematics) , movement (music) , event (particle physics) , history , art , literature , epistemology , psychology , computer science , philosophy , physics , geometry , mathematics , quantum mechanics , database , neuroscience , machine learning
The story «Diary of a seminarian», by I. S. Nikitin, as the name implies, is written in the form of a diary: Nikitin imitates the real diary of a young seminarian. The article makes an assumption about the interaction of two discourses, artistic and documentary, in the text of the story. This interaction manifests itself in relation to the spatio-temporal organization of the world of the work. The narrator's time is subordinated to the documentary discourse, which basically does not coincide with the physical time, but is built in accordance with the psychological characteristics of the main character, the author of the diary. On the other hand, the completeness of the temporary whole of the story, the distribution of time in accordance with the aesthetic tasks solved in the work, signals the influence of artistic discourse. The deployment of an event series is also subordinated to the task of interaction between two types of chronotope. On the one hand, the «mosaic» of this series, the set of events included in the text as if not mandatory, create the illusion of authenticity of what is happening; on the other, all these various inclusions are somehow artistically justified and perform certain aesthetic functions. The unfolding of events «here and now», the abundance of dialogues, direct speech of the characters are characteristic features of the artistic chronotope of Nikitin's story. The optics of perception and the language of describing space in the story are constructed in accordance with the value system of the narrator, manifesting itself in the documentary style of the narrative. On the other hand, the detailed description of the spaces familiar to the narrator serves an artistic function: it creates an image of the Seminary. As a result of the analysis, the author comes to the conclusion that the features of the documentary diary chronotope are associated with the image of the narrator, and the artistic diary chronotope – with the image of the author.