Функциональная роль границы в жанровой традиции романа воспитания (на материале модернистской прозы 1910-1920-х гг.)

Abstract

The paper studies the phenomenon of a boundary in the Russian modernist prose of the 1910s-1920s (in the novels “Petersburg” by A. Bely, “We” by Ye. Zamyatin and the novella “The Childhood of Luvers” by B. Pasternak), which makes it possible to determine its functional role in the genre structure of the Bildungsroman. The aim of the research is to identify the functional role of the phenomenon of a boundary. Scientific novelty is accounted for by the fact that the paper is the first to consider the phenomenon of a boundary as a structural part of the Bildungsroman determining the gradual development of the hero’s personality. As a result, firstly, based on Yu. M. Lotman’s research, the types of boundaries represented in the modernist prose of the 1910s-1920s gravitating towards the Bildungsroman tradition (spatial, public (social) / familial, eschatological, ethical, psychological, threshold boundaries) were revealed. Secondly, it was found that a boundary is a fundamentally significant structural element of the Bildungsroman genre contributing to the protagonist’s gradual understanding of themself and the world: the hero’s acquisition of their own “self” and the program of their education are embodied by overcoming boundaries as a consistent feature of the Bildungsroman.