«Перемещения в будущее» в книге А. М. Ремизова «Подстриженными глазами» и их функции

Abstract

The article highlights the flash-forward technique in the book “With Trimmed Eyes” by A. M. Remizov. The narrator who initially wants to tell the story of childhood in Moscow uses flash-forwards to his adulthood in Saint Petersburg and Paris to create sophisticated constructions connecting different times into “knots and twists” to illustrate the creative work of the memory. The functions of flash-forwards are analyzed and their correspondences to writer’s leitmotifs, such as creative rivalry, tendencies to compare the experiences and to create the negative contrast, and to underline narrator’s uniqueness, are shown. The appendix presents the list of flash-forwards corresponded with their leitmotivs.