“WALDWINKEL” BY TH. STORM (EXPERIENCE OF PHILOLOGICAL ANALYSIS)

Abstract

The article presents an experience of philological analysis of one of the novellas by German writer of XIX century Theodor Storm. The aim of the article is to show the motivational level of the writer's skill, who presented the history of destruction of love between people of different age and social status within the poetics of “Biedermeier” and "poetic realism". The author reproduces in the story not only the usual for him situation of “threatened idyll”, but also the situation of "lost paradise", destroyed by the intrigues of the local "devil". It reveals the author's technique of using the symbols of the nest and its devastation, the bird of prey and its victims. The plot of the novel is composed of time dilated significant fragments of action and is built as a system of points of view on the narrated by the actors - the burghermaster, peasants in the pub, Wieb Lewerenz and, of course, the author narrator. An important role for the story is played by the plot of the painting with poems on it, found by the characters on the wall of the “Waldwinkel”. Essential role is played by the evaluation of the novel by Th. Storm from the side of writing contemporaries. In any case, the author of the novel appears as a subtle connoisseur of human psychology.