Open AccessBORIS YULSKY’S "LIVING" DOLLS AND "STONE" CHARACTERS
Author(s) -
Margarita I. Kryukova
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
vestnik udmurtskogo universiteta. istoriâ i filologiâ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2413-2454
pISSN - 2412-9534
DOI - 10.35634/2412-9534-2020-30-3-520-528
Subject(s) - plot (graphics) , literature , soul , creativity , art , atmosphere (unit) , queen (butterfly) , history , philosophy , psychology , social psychology , statistics , physics , hymenoptera , mathematics , botany , biology , thermodynamics , theology
The article analyzes the motive of living mannequins and dolls in B.M. Yulsky’s work, writer of the Far Eastern emigration. In the centre of attention there are two writer’s stories - «The Bearded Jack» and «The Fair Queen». At the beginning of the twentieth century, the doll’s motive became plot-forming and very popular in literature, it is found both in the works of classics and fiction writers. The influence of Hoffmann and Pushkin's creativity on Yulsky’s work is noted in the paper, as well as the intermedia links with Nabokov and Grin’s texts are found. In addition, the motive of a smiling card is also important in Yulsky's stories. Despite the fact that the writer lived and worked in China and Toogen (in a taiga atmosphere), the considered texts take the reader to the West, to the space where inanimate characters intervene in the plot and concentrate it around them. The essence of Yulsky’s characters is static and soulless, therefore they cannot revive the «artificial» soul of dolls.