CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF JOHN GREEN’S NOVELS (USING THE EXAMPLE OF “THE FAULT IN OUR STARS”) Cover Image

ОСОБЕННОСТИ ТВОРЧЕСТВА ДЖОНА ГРИНА (НА ПРИМЕРЕ РОМАНА «ВИНОВАТЫ ЗВЁЗДЫ»)
CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF JOHN GREEN’S NOVELS (USING THE EXAMPLE OF “THE FAULT IN OUR STARS”)

Author(s): Alice Albertovna Zelichenok
Subject(s): Philosophy, Language and Literature Studies, Fiction, Studies of Literature, Philosophical Traditions, Other Language Literature, Existentialism
Published by: Казанский (Приволжский) федеральный университет
Keywords: John Green; “young adults”; theme of travel; metaphor of God; theme of death; love story; fear of oblivion;

Summary/Abstract: This article is devoted to the study of the most common features of the literary methods employed by John Green, one of the most famous authors in contemporary American young-adult fiction. We analyzed his most recent novel “The Fault in Our Stars”, where the main characters are teenagers suffering from cancer. The analysis allowed us to distinguish the major themes typical for the writer’s works: love and friendship as the most important values in life, which are incapable, however, to save anyone; teenagers’ comprehension of the fact that death is an inherent part and ending of everyone’s existence; the presence of death which helps to identify the true nature of a person, his good and bad sides. The writer’s literary method might be characterized by such features as the use of existing (including fictional) texts as a motive of his own work; the employment of the philosophy of existentialism as the theoretical basis of the characters’ thoughts and actions; the inclusion of symbolic details and historical and literary allusions.

  • Issue Year: 156/2014
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 187-197
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Russian