Abstract
The article studies the book as a special type of artistic unity, representing an original model for expressing artistic consciousness in modern Russian literature abroad. The article proves the productivity of this genre phenomenon, identifies the main trends in book creation associated with an appeal to the sacral text, with the actualization of the autobiographical, diary and memoir prose traditions. The representative sample is analyzed on the basis of the modern literary scholarship provisions, which conceptualize the book as an original genre phenomenon. Using the example of E. Margolis’ book “Venice. Quarantine Chronicles” (2020), we analyze the mechanisms of constructing the artistic world, organically embodied in book format. The article reveals the nature of the artistic integrity of the book, conditioned by the interaction of verbal and visual components, the motif complex associated with the Christian tradition (which includes motifs of insight, internal movement, silence and healing of the soul), and reveals the features of the palimpsest, which serves as the principle of genre modeling. The conceptual and formal anchor in the book is the image of Venice, which connects everyday and metaphysical, visible and invisible aspects. The article proves that the book represents a form of the world harmonization and a space for a dialogue between different cultural codes at whose junction the author’s hybrid identity is formed.
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