Abstract
The image of Death, embodied in the image of a beautiful maiden, is considered in the article through the analysis of references in the novel diptych by B. Akunin The Mistress of Death and The Lover of Death (the Erast Fandorin series) to one of the most important primary sources, the drama by A. Blok The Little Show-Booth. The study shows that Akunin's method of deformation was replaced by a postmodern deconstruction with a splitting into two images, of Columbine and of Maiden-Death, each of which is dominated by one of the hypostases of the heroine of The Little Show-Booth. These transformations appeal in their development to the opposition in Akunin’s novels of two points of view on fate, dialectically interacting, which correlate with the adventurous exposition and with the inevitability of personal destiny idea, oriented towards the “classical” tradition. The result of the analysis is a new formula of the genre of Akunin's novels, since their poetics goes out of the ordinary framework of criminal literature, as a transgressive phenomenon in the field of mass literature, as postmodern novel, in which the uncertain intertextuality accentuates, align with plot details, the problem of heroes’ self-identity.
Highlights
ISSN 0258-0802 eISSN 1648-1143 LITERATŪRA 63(2), 2021 is a new formula of the genre of Akunin's novels, since their poetics goes out of the ordinary framework of criminal literature, as a transgressive phenomenon in the field of mass literature, as postmodern novel, in which the uncertain intertextuality accentuates, align with plot details, the problem of heroes’ self-identity
Получается, что более органичное, казалось бы, в жанровом отношении представление о судьбе как результате свободного выбора, а не предначертания уступает здесь другому, который актуализируется во многом благодаря идущему от блоковского «Балаганчика» образу Смерти, воплощенной в облике прекрасной девы: судьбе как непреодолимому, во всяком случае, полностью, року
В контексте сказанного понятно, почему так актуален оказывается именно «Балаганчик» Блока, содержащий в себе все предпосылки для дальнейшего развития затронутого в нем комплекса проблем: раздвоенность героев и их соотнесенность с масками театра дель-арте; общая игровая организация художественного мира, деформирующая традиционные жанровые формы
Summary
ISSN 0258-0802 eISSN 1648-1143 LITERATŪRA 63(2), 2021 is a new formula of the genre of Akunin's novels, since their poetics goes out of the ordinary framework of criminal literature, as a transgressive phenomenon in the field of mass literature, as postmodern novel, in which the uncertain intertextuality accentuates, align with plot details, the problem of heroes’ self-identity. Но более важный для нас аллюзивный пласт – кружок Мистиков в «Балаганчике» Блока, где ожидание Смерти как избавительницы представлено в нарочито сниженном регистре. Для Мистиков она – прекрасная дева, которая является воплощением смерти как избавительницы3.
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