NON LYRICAL AND NON EPICAL DIARY: AT THE BORDER OF GENRES

Abstract

The «from the diary» genre is difficult to study, since the indication of the origin is more significant than formal or substantial features, and the relationship between such an enhanced appeal to the origin and the development of creative design remains unclear. On the example of the use of this genre in the works by O. Sedakova, who designated a number of poetic and prosaic texts in this way, the characteristic of this genre is given as special type of literary reflection, comparable to table-talks (conversations easily), but distinguished by a more strict compositional organization. A comparison of poetic and prose works «from the diary» in the works of O. Sedakova allows to show general compositional principles of this genre, which are determined by the peculiarity of argumentation, and to explain some features of poetics. It is proved that the «from the diary» genre turns out to be a study of how non-semiotic meaning (or sense itself) is possible, not obeying the usual patterns of meaning production, but arising as a gap of experience. This genre is far from fragment or lyrical sketch, but it is, on the contrary, a thoughtful and consistent manifesto of understanding meaning as event, a special philosophy of the event and thing, stemming, inter alia, from the work of the diary organization itself. Thus, this genre, despite the marginality, is highly auto-reflective and should be considered as a productive version of autofiction.