“Orchid” by N.G. Garin-Mikhailovsky: features of the playwright’s communicative strategies

Abstract

The authors of the article analyze the literary heritage of N.G. Garin-Mikhailovsky, a writer who has worked in a variety of genres from a fairy tale to story, from a story to drama. The writers dramaturgy characterizes by a relatively low percentage rate of coverage studies on the theoretical level, although it comprises a number of significant features that reflect the drama development at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries the changes in the dramatic language may be pointed out in Garins texts. The article gives a brief description of N.G. Garins dramaturgy, and his play Orchid is analyzed in detail. The interest of researchers is focused on the organization of the authors interaction with the reader / viewer and on the certain features of the drama poetics, which make it possible to compare Garins play with neo-dramatic aesthetics. Methodologically, the authors rely on the communicative theory and historical poetics. The empirical material is the text of N.G. Garin-Mikhailovsky. As a source of factual material, five-volume collected works of the author, published by Goslitizdat Publishing House in 19571958, have been used. Among the scientific results of the work the authors point out systematic analysis of the play by Garin-Mikhailovsky, description of the authors strategies for interacting with the reader / viewer, revealing the structure of central images and key scenes in a dramatic action. In accordance with its inner nature, the play Orchid is a kind of dramatized psychological research with a new type of dramatic protagonist, bearing the features of the epic drama with a special literary quality, which has been noted by the contemporary reviews relating to the Garin-Mikhailovsky times.