Open AccessThe Thematic Composition of an Emigrant Autobiographical Novel: From “The Life of Arsenyev” by I. Bunin to “The Gift” by V. Nabokov. Part 1
Author(s) -
E. V. Kapinos
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
sûžetologiâ i sûžetografiâ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2713-3133
pISSN - 2410-7883
DOI - 10.25205/2410-7883-2020-2-393-406
Subject(s) - elegiac , literature , theme (computing) , poetry , plot (graphics) , subject (documents) , composition (language) , history , character (mathematics) , art , mathematics , computer science , statistics , library science , operating system , geometry
Bunin’s novel “The Life of Arsenyev” is a completely new model, different from the classics of the 19 th century. In the novel “The life of Arsenyev” several themes are developed in a new way, in particular, the theme of aristocratic genealogy, it is deliberately deployed in all the richness of its cultural and historical semantics. The compositional rhythm of Bunin’s novel is subject, as often in the stories of this author, to elegiac laws with alternating and contrasting semantics of death, breakage, failure and rebirth, connection, love, life and creativity.Nabokov reproduces in the novel “The gift” many features of the model developed by Bunin: poetic name and literary genealogy of the character. Expansion of literary and cultural subtexts through the development of genealogical and travel motifs; the elegiac alternation of the theme of death, rebirth and its connection with the eventual Nabokov plot.