Open AccessLANDSCAPES IN GUSTAVE FLAUBERT’S EARLY WORKS
Author(s) -
Galina Modina
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
literaturovedčeskij žurnal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2073-5561
DOI - 10.31249/litzhur/2021.53.01
Subject(s) - exposition (narrative) , passion , memoir , style (visual arts) , literature , art , plot (graphics) , virtue , space (punctuation) , philosophy , epistemology , linguistics , psychology , statistics , mathematics , psychotherapist
The article is devoted to the evolution of landscape descriptions in the early works of Flaubert, created before the novel Madame Bovary . It analyzes the formation of the technique of landscape descriptions and the transformation of its functions from landscape sketches in the exposition of the first literary experiments of 1835-1836 to the lyrical landscapes of the psychological tale Passion and Virtue (1837) with their compositional and plot-forming functions, and to pantheistic landscapes and landscape-reminiscences in Flaubert’s early autobiographical cycle: the mystery play Smar (1839), the novel Memoirs of a Madman (1839) and November, fragments in an indefinite style (1842), where the landscape becomes the basis of the artistic space of the autobiographical text and a way of expressing inner experience the author, his ontological and aesthetic ideas.