N. S. LESKOV’S NOTEBOOK WITH EXTRACTS FROM “PROLOGUE” (THE EXPERIENCE OF TEXTUAL COMMENTS)
Thе article, for the fi rst time, provides a detailed textual commentary on N. S. Leskov’s notebook with extracts from “Prologue”. The extant literary materials include extracts and abstracts from the early printed Prologue, fi ction and historical literature of the 19th century, letters of Europ...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Russian |
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Petrozavodsk State University
2016-03-01
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| Series: | Problemy Istoričeskoj Poètiki |
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| Online Access: | http://poetica.pro/files/redaktor_pdf/1456395496.pdf |
| Summary: | Thе article, for the fi rst time, provides a detailed textual commentary
on N. S. Leskov’s notebook with extracts from “Prologue”. The extant literary
materials include extracts and abstracts from the early printed Prologue,
fi ction and historical literature of the 19th century, letters of European and
Russian scholars and authors (Pushkin A., Tolstoy L., Pigault-Lebrun, Sher I.),
devoted to doctrine matters and religious aspects, description and analysis
of anthropologic categories. The autograph is the evidence of spiritual search
and creative experiments of the writer. In the books the writer found
endorsement of both his own ideas, and those ones that require further inner
understanding, questioning and emotional upheaval. Meanwhile, studying
the history, structure and contents of Prologue in the 1880s, Leskov found
an exceptional existential and creative experience. The most part of the
notebook shows the writer’s learning process of various examples of repentance,
atonement, a sudden rebirth of a sinner, active love, the benefi ts of obedience,
the miracle of movement of a saint in space, the phenomenon of manifestation
of supernatural power and its intervention in life of a man (God, the Holy
Spirit, Angels), etc. While working with Prologue texts Leskov enunciated
some principles of their artistic processing (quoting “crisis”, “turning”,
unusual fragments in the Church Slavonic language, emphasizing key
situations by changing the name, specifying the narration, acronyms, graphic
intonation). General trends in understanding of the Prologue source
(ideological, imaginative, plot-compositional, stylistic), identifi ed in the notebook,
are subsequently transformed by the author in a series of “Byzantine
Legends” where they receive additional semantic and functional load. |
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| ISSN: | 1026-9479 1026-9479 |