НАРАТОЛОГІЧНИЙ АСПЕКТ СИМВОЛІСТСЬКОГО РОМАНУ (МАРСЕЛЬ ПРУСТ)
NARATOLOGICAL ASPECT OF THE SYMBOLIST NOVEL (MARCEL PROUST)

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the specifics of the naratological analysis of the symbolist text, in particular, on the material of Marcel Proust's epic "In Search of Lost Time." It is argued that the Marcel Proust Symbolist novel as a special type of text requires the development of a special methodology for research. In the symbolist novel, the main idea is abstract, the means of its expression are concrete: it is a symbol as a universal category of human thinking. In order for the symbol to function in the multi-level structure of the text, the author of the symbolist work must choose a special structure of the narrative and the corresponding strategies and tactics, which obviously differ from the traditional one. The chronology, techniques, and measurements of the narrative of the symbolist novel are constructed on the principle of gradation significance in the formation of characters, their development, self-expression, modeling of individual values, interaction of man with the outside world at the confines of sacred / profane. Marcel Proust showed that time and life are inseparable concepts that play a major role in the human worldview.

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