ДРЕВНЕГРЕЧЕСКИЙ СЮЖЕТ И ЕГО ТВОРЧЕСКАЯ ИНТЕРПРЕТАЦИЯ (НА МАТЕРИАЛЕ ПРОИЗВЕДЕНИЙ СОВРЕМЕННОГО НЕМЕЦКОГО ПИСАТЕЛЯ ШТЕФФЕНА МАРЦИНЬЯКА)

Abstract

The article analyzes the transcriptions of ancient myths in the work of the modern German writer Steffen Marciniak. The reasons for his appeal to ancient Greek mythology, its plots, motives and images are clarified, the author’s intentions and ways of their artistic embodiment (interpretation) in a specific text are fixed. The analysis is carried out with the involvement of the reception history of ancient myths in the German-speaking cultural space. Within the framework of historical-literary and historical-comparative analysis, the Russian language context is involved. The transcriptions-retellings-interpretations by Marciniak of original ancient mythological storylines are analyzed both from the point of view of the problem and thematic scope, and the plot, structural and compositional particulars of the writer’s texts. The connection of Marciniak’s works with the peculiarities of his biography, personal psychological and ideological, as well as artistic and aesthetic orientations is traced. It reveals that the main theme, that excites the writer and forms the basis of his plots, becomes the core of interpretation and refers to tradition. Based on the analysis, an attempt is made to determine the specifics of the individual poetics of the writer, to fit it into the general context of German literature of the XX-XXI century.