Open AccessTHE «QUEST NARRATIVE» RECEPTIVE MODEL IN MIKHAIL SHISHKIN’S STORY «BLIND MUSICIAN»
Author(s) -
Olga Aleksandrovna Grimova
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
vestnik kostromskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta imeni n.a. nekrasova
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1998-0817
DOI - 10.34216/1998-0817-2020-26-1-160-165
Subject(s) - narrative , mythology , literature , sign (mathematics) , certainty , subject (documents) , plot (graphics) , perception , philosophy , linguistics , art , mathematics , computer science , epistemology , statistics , mathematical analysis , library science
The article is devoted to the study of the receptive model of Mikhail Shishkin’s prose. The material of the story «Blind Musician» explores the mechanisms by which the text «routes» readers’ perception. This narrative can be considered to be «quest narrative», decoding which, a reader relies on various kinds of keys. One of the most signifi cant is the title, which is possible to interpret in terms of various contexts. Literary one leads us to an obvious comparison of the modern text with the Vladimir Korolenko’s famous story «The Blind Musician». Mythological one suggests correlation with ancient and Christian plots. Within the philosophical framework it is possible to establish a correlation of Mikhail Shishkin’s ideas with the teachings of Gnostics and Pythagoreans. Taking into account each of the listed semiotic codes allows a new decoding of the reference assignment of the sign put into the title. Thus, the «blind musician» turns out not only to be physically blind Roman, but also Evgenia, who needs to become mentally «blind» in order to continue to love, to be a «musician». The analysis revealed the peculiarities of the narrative organisation of Mikhail Shishkin’s text. The level of presentation of the narration turns out to be more important than the plot itself, there is a reconsideration of the main narrative instances, and the clear certainty of thesubject of speech is lost.