СПЕЦИФИКА ПАРОДИЙНОЙ ПРОЗЫ А.И. КУПРИНА (НА МАТЕРИАЛЕ РАССКАЗА «ПЕРВЕНЕЦ»)

Abstract

The article deals with the analysis of Kuprin's story “Firstborn”. With the help of the intertextual analysis technique, the second and third story plan are established, which allows considering it as a parody. As a result of the study, it has been proved that a lot of parody elements are used in the text of the second plan. It makes it possible to suggest that Kuprin writes a parody for a parody. He reproduces all parody elements of the background text and acts as an author and a recipient. The article confirms the theoretical substantiation of parody as a private manifestation of intertext. The intertextual analysis allows seeing the intertextual convergence at the compositional and stylistic levels between Kuprin's story “Firstborn” and Turgenev's narrative “First Love”. Intertextuality is the main feature of Kuprin's game poetics. It becomes a way of modelling a text according to the principle of rhizome branching. The theory of game poetics has turned out to be productive for analysing the story “Firstborn”. The article argues that this story should be considered in the framework of a non-author cycle about writers that, like all other non-author Kuprin's cycle, is built on the principle of rhizome. The research part of the article is dedicated to revealing various types of intertextual connections between Kuprin's story “Firstborn” and Turgenev's narrative “First Love”. It has been ascertained that the intertext dialogue of “Firstborn” and “First Love” is indicated by the title, composition, plot and system characters. The theory of allusive writing has allowed us to establish a vertical context of Kuprin's parody. The research has resulted in determining the objects for parodying of both text. Besides, it has been revealed that quatations and allusions in the title and in the text of Kuprin's parody are the main markers of the intertext dialogue. It has also been proved that Kuprin's parody and Turgenev's parody text refer to the type of implicit parody. Key words: allusion, intertext, game poetics, parody, quotation.