ТИПОЛОГИЯ ЛИТЕРАТУРНО-КРИТИЧЕСКИХ ПОРТРЕТОВ В КНИГАХ АНДРЕЯ БЕЛОГО «АРАБЕСКИ» И «ЛУГ ЗЕЛЁНЫЙ»
TYPOLOGY OF LITERARY AND CRITICAL PORTRAITS IN ANDREI BELY’S BOOKS “ARABESQUES” AND “GREEN MEADOW”

Summary/Abstract: The paper is devoted to identification of the specifics of genre originality of A. Bely’s literary and critical portraits. The study is based on the literary portraits created by the critic during the period of 1903–1910 and assembled by him in the books of articles, “Green Meadow” (1905) and “Arabesques” (1911). Some of them were earlier published in newspapers and magazines, but these literary portraits acquire another interpretation in the context of the entire book and microcycles. Additional materials for creation of the typology of A. Bely’s literary and critical portraits are the critical works of V. Bryusov, V. Rozanov, and D. Merezhkovskii about N.V. Gogol. They allow to reveal particular aesthetic and critical views of A. Bely on the writer’s personality, symbolism, and literature as a whole. Furthermore, studies related to thoughts on the contemporary literary processes and reflecting the trends of the epoch are used. The analysis of the literary portraits created by the critic demonstrated that they are influenced by both trends of the epoch (lyricization of prose, impressionism, modernization of genres) and A. Bely’s critical views. We have identified the following kinds of literary portraits: reviewing portrait, jubilee portrait, obituary portrait, silhouette portrait, impressionistic sketch of creative work. As noted, various genre forms are synthesized in some articles of the symbolist: the portrait incorporates elements of review, essay, silhouette, feuilleton, etc.

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