Типологические параллели в эстетике Ивана Гончарова и Сёрена Кьеркегора

Abstract

The aim of the study is to identify typological parallels in the creative work and aesthetic views of I. A. Goncharov and S. Kierkegaard. The paper describes the plot situation of seduction and the further development of this situation in Kierkegaard’s post-Romantic works “Shadowgraphs”, “The Unhappiest One” and in Goncharov’s novel “trilogy”. The role of female characters in the works of Kierkegaard and Goncharov was revealed, as wells as their place in the poetics of post-Romanticism, shifting the author’s interest from seducer characters to the inner world of their “victims”. A similar embodiment of religious ideas was found to be among the common features in the aesthetics of the authors under consideration (the text “The Immediate Stages of the Erotic, or Musical Erotic” is the most representative one in Kierkegaard’s creative work). The scientific originality of the study lies in the identified and described typological parallels in the aesthetics and worldview of the authors under consideration. As a result of the study, it was shown that the similarities in the works by Goncharov and Kierkegaard are due to the presence of typological parallels in their writings in the context of the post-Romantic paradigm. The paper proposed a term for the heroine of the plot situation of seduction, i.e., “a victim of seduction”, showed her typological features based on the essay “The Unhappiest One” by Kierkegaard. The researchers raised the question about the artistic interpretation of Christianity in the creative work of the authors in question.