«Гамлет» и «Дон-Кихот» в рамках интертекстуальной поэтики романа И. С. Тургенева «Рудин»

Abstract

The paper, as its title-Hamlet and Don Quixote in the intertextual poetic world of Turgenev's novel, Rudin-suggests, attempts at elucidating the Hamlet and Don Quixote problematics from a poetic point of view. This approach refuses to rely on the analysis of Turgenev's interpretation of the figures of Hamlet and Don Quixote as presented in the writer's essay Hamlet and Don Quixote. Instead, it proposes a close reading of the Rudin-Hamlet and Rudin-Don Quixote intertexts evolving in the Turgenevian novel under scrutiny, with special attention to the common aspects of their poetic formulation. These poetic analogues lead to a parallel intertextual portraying of Hamlet and Don Quixote as semantically attached to the figure of Rudin. The interpretation of the Hamlet-intertext places at center stage the Mouse-trap scene in its relation to the descriptions of the appearance of the Ghost at the beginning of the play and Hamlets's revenge at its end, with the semantic implications of their motifs of word and deed...