THE MAIN MOTIVES OF THE ARTISTIC PROSE OF P. LAGERKVIST (BASED ON THE NOVEL “BARABBAS “)

Abstract

The article analyses the main motives of the artistic prose of the famous Swedish writer Par Fabian Lagerkvist. The purpose of the article was a comprehensive analysis of the motive organization of the entire work of Pаr Lagerkvist and in particular his most famous novel “Barabbas”. The article analyses the main motives, genre and style constants, and dominant, chronotope. In particular, the novel “Barabbas”, which represents the author’s worldview, is being researched in detail. The individual style of Pera Lagerquist is characterized by allegory, symbolism and the presence of an individual author’s myth. The writer interprets mythological, historical scenes through minor characters who witnessed epochal events. For example, Barabbas watched the death of Christ. The article analyses Biblical (human endeavours to find God, the motive of faith, hope, love, etc.) and existential (loneliness, amount, anxiety, etc.) motives. The article investigates the author’s symbols (cross, mountain, injury of characters, etc.), which project the mythological vision of the writer. The paper analyses the main motives of the writer in different genres of literature. The dominant genre of the 50s of the twentieth century in the work of P. Lagerquist is a novel, anti-myth, which has a powerful philosophical and religious reason. The constant motifs of the artistic prose of Lagerkvist are the motives of life and death, of good and evil, of faith and of despair, of suffering and of redemption. The stylistic feature of this author is the combination of modernist and realistic tendencies. In the detailed analysis of the real chronotope, the motives of doom, loneliness, alienation, and fear become dominant, and the characters represented by the author try to orient themselves in the chronotope and find a way out of the impasse.