"Erast Krutolobov's Journey to Moscow and St. Petersburg in the 30s of the XIX century" by V. Novodvorsky as a parody of the sentimental narrative model of travelogue

Abstract

The subject of the study is a parody text of the famous philologist, author of the fundamental monograph on the "Letters of the Russian traveler" N. M. Karamzin, V. V. Sipovsky (pseudonym – V. Novodvorsky), little known to a wide range of readers, "Erast Krutolobov's Journey to Moscow and St. Petersburg in the 30s of the XIX century" as a parody of the narrative model of travelogue. The purpose of the study is to determine the specifics of the description of the sentimental narrative model of the travelogue in the work of V. Novodvorsky (V. V. Sipovsky), to characterize the author's reflection on the way of organizing the narrative in a parody text about the journey. The theoretical basis of the research was the works of Yu. N. Tynyanov, A. Shenle, V. M. Guminsky, O. V. Kublitskaya, Yu. V. Shatin, I. V. Banach devoted to the theory of parody and the analysis of the narrative structure of parody travelogues. To understand the specifics of V.V. Sipovsky's parody of the sentimental narrative model of travelogue, the following research methods are used: biographical, structural-typological, historical-literary. The scientific novelty of the research lies in a special material that expresses the point of view of the author-philologist, researcher of the "Karamzin canon" in the genre of travelogue, which allows us to discover the "common places" of the sentimental tradition, significantly modified in the 30s of the XIX century under the influence of new literary trends. The analysis of the ways of self-expression of the writer-literary critic in the process of creating a parody reveals research reflection not only at the level of literary play, but also through modeling the narrative structure of the text, in which not only the stages of the journey of the protagonist, Erast Krutolobov, "the event of the journey" are parodied, but also the ambivalence of ideas about the "event of telling" about the journey is expressed, contrasted sentimental narrative model and realistic.