Family Chronicle Research Articles

Жанровые модификации и «поиски жанра» в романе Тимура Кибирова «Генерал и его семья»

Genre definition of Timur Kibirov’s The General and His Family caused disagreement among literary critics. The range of opinions concerning the definition of the novel’s genre include historical novel, family saga, cento novel, the novel about psychology and morality of the late years of the USSR. This article is concentrated on the novel’s genre definition. The genre framework of the text is the epoch-standard local family story depicted against the background of massive Soviet history. Text analysis allows to speak about the combination of the family and historical chronicle genres as the form and meaning generating composition and style structure in its historical stability. At the same time, the novel is distinguished by features of genre marginality (transitivity), manifested through genre contamination and genre diffusion. This allows Kibirov’s novel to absorb other compositional and stylistic formations, including that variety of the coming-of-age novel, which Bakhtin defines as a novel of ordeal. Contamination of various genres in the novel is based on the principle of their interpenetration, that is, genre-related new formations and connections appear in the text as a result of the diffusion process, that is when new meaningful forms arise as a result of mixing, displacement, constant and deliberate breaking of boundaries. The author in the text, commenting on the events and being one of their participants, uses the techniques of artistic play to lead a never-ending dialogue with the reader and the characters. The author’s vision makes it possible to perceive the novel written in the paradigm of “genre search” in its genre integrity.

Освещение национальной истории в контексте современной англоязычной мультикультурной прозы (на материале романа Джумпы Лахири «Низина»)

The paper considers Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel “The Lowland”. By addressing this material, the research aims to examine how the writer, relying on the genre strategies of a family chronicle, provides insight into the issue of the interaction between the history of the country and the history of several generations of one family. While the multicultural prose of the second half of the XX century has already been extensively addressed by foreign and Russian scholars, works on the stated issues published in the early XXI century are insufficiently studied. Moreover, the analysis of the novel “The Lowland” in the context of the specified topic is carried out for the first time in Russian literary studies, which accounts for scientific originality of the research. As a result, the researcher has substantiated the significance of the influence that national history has on the formation of characters’ identity.

Pages of the family chronicles. Unknown photographic heritage of G. F. Korzukhina and N. N. Voronin

Pages of the family chronicles. Unknown photographic heritage of G. F. Korzukhina and N. N. Voronin

Sergei Vasilievich Vonsovskii, Scientist and Reader

Sergei Vasilievich Vonsovskii (1910–1998), also spelled Vonsovsky, a brilliant Russian scientist in the field of magnetism and solid state physics, organizer and manager of science, Full Member of the USSR / Russian Academy of Sciences, and founder of the Urals’ scientific school in the physics of magnetic phenomena, attached great importance to books. When working on his numerous articles and monographs, Vonsovskii always used all available sources. For him, familiarizing himself with the latest scientific periodicals was a matter of professional competence while fiction gave him opportunities for reflections and was a source of delight. The article describes the range of Vonsovskii’s interests in reading. The sources for our analysis were the documents from “Academician S. V. Vonsovskii’s Personal Fonds” deposited at the Central Scientific Library of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (CSL UB RAS), and his personal collection of books that comprised two parts. The first of these is a part of the preserved family library assembled by his parents, Sofia Ivanovna and Vasily Semyonovich Vonsovskii. Many books from this collection bear the traces of existence (the autographs and marks made by family members, book shop stamps) and can be regarded as family chronicle of a kind. The second part comprises scientific literature used by Sergei Vasilievich in his work (it was handed over to CSL UB RAS from the scientist’s study). Additional information was drawn from the memories of Vonsovskii himself, his colleagues and his pupils. In addition to his personal library, Vonsovskii also used the literature from CSL UB RAS, as evidenced by several inscriptions in the book circulation cards. Sergei Vasilievich also chaired the Library Board for several decades. As he wrote in his memories, “in my whole life, my scientific and public activities, the book has been playing a huge role, sometimes, probably, a decisive one”.

Metaphor and Genre of Family Chronicle (On the Example of L. Ulickaya’s "Medea and Her Children”)

Metaphor and Genre of Family Chronicle (On the Example of L. Ulickaya’s "Medea and Her Children”)

Kajetan Kraszewski a kwestia unicka na Podlasiu w świetle Silva rerum. Wybrane problemy

The article presents Kajetan Kraszewski’s opinions on the Uniate Church in Podlasie, included in his Silva rerum. The views of the author of Kronika rodzinna (Family chronicle) are confronted with the statements of the researchers (mostly historians, literary scholars and linguists) within the broad context of the political, social and cultural life of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the partition periods. By comparing research literature and excerpts from Silva rerum, the article analyses the effects of the Union of Lublin and the Union of Brest for the peasant community of Podlasie in the 1860s and 1870s. As presented in Kajetan Kraszewski’s Kronika, the tragedy of the followers of the Uniate Church in Podlasie resulted from the social and religious conditions that fuelled the divides during the time of the Russian partition (divide et impera). Kraszewski’s Silva rerum constitutes an image of the distance with which peasants treated Podlasie’s Uniate Church members, similar to the latter’s during the “masters’” uprising of 1863 (“in the masters’ uprising – we stayed aside watching”).

“A distortive glass of our distorted glebe”: mistranslation in Nabokov’s Ada

This article examines the theme of mistranslation in Nabokov ’s Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle in the context of the novel’s multilingual style. Focusing on a selection of deliberate mistranslations carried out by the cen-tral protagonists, Van and Ada Veen, the article demonstrates that such playful mistranslation serves a function that is much more significant than mere parody. Though, on the surface, the mistranslations parody those forms of ‘paraphrastic’ or ‘free’ translation that Nabokov and his cha racters consistently critique throughout Ada, each instance of deliberately ‘bad’ translation also contains extremely inventive forms of interlingual mutation and play which have aesthetically-productive defamiliarising effects. The article relates those instances of explicit mistranslation to the overall style of the novel, arguing that problems of interlingual transfer and communication are intrinsic to the multilingual aesthetic of the novel as a whole.

Vladimir Nabokov’un Ada ya da Arzu romanındaki Çehov’un köksapının çevirisi

The literary works of Vladimir Nabokov are often discussed in terms of intertextuality, since the writer is a known master of literary games and puzzles with numerous allusions, direct or hidden (mis)quotations, dialogues, names, and themes, echoing with multilingual works of world literature. The concept of a rhizome appears as a productive way of interpreting the architecture of Nabokov’s works (Strelnikova 2018). As described by Deleuze and Guattari (1987), rhizome in its application to literature is a design with several cores and many intertwining branches of different authorships, forming the unique texture of a new narrative. Proffer (1974) in his Ada as Wonderland: A Glossary of Allusions to Russian Literature depicts more than twenty examples of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya, The Seagull, and The Three Sisters weaved into Nabokov’s Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle. These examples constitute the basis of textual analysis in this work. The Turkish translation by Fatih Özgüven (2002) is not presented as an annotated translation and appeals to a reader who would rather perform his/her own literary investigation independently. This strategy is also in line with Nabokov’s idea of an “admirable reader”. An annotated translation, on the other hand, would offer a detailed map for Nabokov’s inter- and sub textual terrain, for a readership with such expectation.

Family Chronicle Traditions in Contemporary Far Eastern Literature

The questions of the content and genre poetics of the works of the Khabarovsk writers V. V. Sukachev (“At the hearth”) and T. I. Gladkikh (“Amur Cossacks Korenevs”) are considered. The relevance ofthe study is due to the value of the literary and regional studies material for the formation of a holistic picture of the national historical and literary process. The novelty of the research lies in the fact that the work of the named authors has practically not been studied, and their works, considered in the article, for the first time became the subject of literary study. Attention is paid to the themes and problems of the works that reveal the tragic events of the national history of the twentieth century: the deportation of the Russian (Crimean) Germans in 1941; post-revolutionary fate of the Amur Cossacks. The experience of analyzing the genre specificity of works connecting family chronicle, parable, fictionalized biography, memoirs is presented. Comparative analysis of the works made it possible to reveal the commonality of the organization of plot and compositional elements inherent in the genre of family chronicles. Particular attention was paid to the specificity of the author’s approach in the artistic processing of historical and biographical material (methods of aestheticization and fictionalization of documentary material, the embodiment of the author’s image, describing the fate of generations, creating the image of the “ancestor”, the use of symbolism). In the process of analysis, the idea was substantiated that the works have a pronounced value component, asserting the absolute value of the human person.

PRACTICAL USE OF ARCHIVAL DOCUMENTS WITHIN GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH IN UKRAINE

The purpose of the article is to analyze the features of the practical use of archival documents in the process of genealogical research in Ukraine. The methodology used general scientific methods such as analysis and generalization. A descriptive method was also used, which allowed revealing this issue in more detail. The scientific novelty of the presented work consists in expanding ideas about the practical use of archival documents in the process of genealogical research in relation to the study of the genealogy of a kind and the creation of a genealogical tree. Conclusions. Genealogy today is a separate interdisciplinary field, which is a special way reflects the historicism of the social consciousness of famous people of today, their place in the social structure of society. In modern conditions of increasing interest in the genealogy of the genus, the analysis of the peculiarities of the search for genealogical information is not only theoretical but also practical. Therefore, the essential goal of the functioning of archives – the use of retrospective documentary information – is fully realized. Along with documentary sources (certificates, acts, metric books, wills, church descriptions, etc.) narrative (descriptive) archival sources are important in the process of genealogical research. Genealogical resource, which is accumulated in the archives of Ukraine, is divided into two large groups: 1) pedigrees in any form (family tree, family table, family list, etc.); 2) other types of sources that contain important information about a person, his life and environment (documents of state and public institutions that have a mass character and determine family ties between people, church metric books, census documents, etc.). Archival documents, both official and private, play the most important role in the accumulation of reliable genealogical information about a particular genus or family chronicles. Key words: genealogical research, archive, archival documents, genealogical information, archival institutions, parish registers (metrics books), census records.

ОСОБЕННОСТИ ВЫРАЖЕНИЯ АВТОРСКОЙ СУБЪЕКТИВНОСТИ В ХУДОЖЕСТВЕННОМ ЭГО-ТЕКСТЕ (ПОВЕСТЬ Р. СЕНЧИНА «ЧЕГО ВЫ ХОТИТЕ?»)

The modern literary process indicates the presence of a large number of fiction with documentary subcurrent: facts from the author’s biography are a very slight hyperbolization. An example of such work would be the novel What Do You Want? (2013) by a contemporary Russian writer Roman Senchin, which became the subject of consideration in this article. The synthesis of auto-documentary and literary principles in the story organizes self-narration with unsteady boundaries between the real (“factual”) and the fictional (“fictitious”). The specificity of the correlation of the factual and the fictitious is examined in this work using the method of literary criticism and contextual analysis. The immediate aim of the article is to identify the specificity of expressing the implicit method of author subjectivity in non-fiction. In the author’s opinion, the implicit way of expressing the reflective type of author subjectivity fits more harmoniously into the literary fabric of the work, enriching it with subtexts and hidden meanings. In the course of the study it has been determined that although the center of the story revolves around the everyday life of an ordinary Moscow family, Senchin’s work is not a slice-of-life novel, but a political commentary. The theme of What Do You Want?” is sociopolitical, the problematics are sociocultural. The narration of the novel undergoes an intense analyzing and coming to terms with the sociopolitical events that are highlighted in almost all of the scenes. The text implies that the writer comprehends his own political position and interprets its cause-effect relationships. In order to distance himself as much as possible from his own identity, Senchin uses the technique of “externalizing” and “assigns” the role of the narrator to a teenage girl Dasha, the prototype of which he himself cannot be. Dasha, being a narrator-observer, asks questions, including the one from the title, to herself and other characters, including the father “Roman Senchin”. The time frame for the narration is precisely established: 18 December 2011 – 26 February 2012; each part of the text is a certain day, there are six in total. However, it is not clear who marked the specific days – the real author of the story or, as he conceived, the narrator Dasha. The autofiction method of “externalizing” in combination with the factual plot allows considering What Do You Want? as an ego-text, which in its genre form is something between an excerpt from a family chronicle and a diary. Autofiction in the form of an ego-text allows the writer to implicate his reflection, organizing a space for discussion of the unquestioning “Roman Senchin” (his alter ego) and the doubting Dasha within a kind of a “mental diary” – a space of consciousness in which the author-subject and the narrator are united. “Bringing to light” this “mental” diary, the writer redirects it to a wide range of readers and thus shifts the story from the field of “literature without fiction” to the sphere of art

ПОСТКОЛОНИАЛЬНАЯ ТРАВМА В АНГЛИЙСКОЙ ЖЕНСКОЙ ЛИТЕРАТУРЕ ХХI В.

The postcolonial fiction of the 21st century has developed a new version of family chronicle depicting the life of several generations of migrants to demonstrate the complexity of their experience, different for each generation. This article aims at investigating this tradition from the perspective of three urgent problems: trauma, postcolonial experience, and the “female” theme. The author uses the most illustrative modern women’s postcolonial writings (Z. Smith, Ju. Chang) to show the types of trauma featured in postcolonial literature as well as the change in the character of traumatic experience, including the migrant’s automythologization from generation to generation. There are several types of trauma, or stages experienced by migrants: historical, migration and selfidentification, more or less correlated with three generations of migrants. Historical trauma is the most severe and most often insurmountable for the first generation. It generates a myth about the past, terrible or beautiful, depending on the writer’s intention realized at the level of the writer or the characters. A most expanded form of this trauma can be found in the novel Wild Swans by Jung Chang, where the “female” experience underlines the severity of the historical situation in the homeland of migrants. The trauma of migration manifests itself as a situation of deterritorialization, lack of place, when the experience of the past dominates and prevents the migrants from adapting to a new life. This situation is clearly illustrated in the novel White Teeth by Z. Smith, where the first generation of migrants cannot cope with the effects of trauma. The trauma of selfidentification promotes a fictitious identity in the younger generation of migrants. Unable to join real life communities, they create automyths, joining fictional communities based on cultural myths (Muslim organizations, rap culture, environmental organizations). Such examples can be found in Z. Smith’s White Teeth and On Beauty. Thus, the problem of trauma undergoes erosion, because, strictly speaking, with each new generation, the event experienced as traumatic is less worth designating as such. Compared to historical trauma or the trauma of migration, trauma of self-identification is rather a psychological problem that affects the emotional sphere and is quite survivable for most of the characters.

Family Chronicles of the Clerical Family of the Tikhomirovs. For the 75th Anniversary of the Repose of Metropolitan Sergius (Tikhomirov) of Japan

В статье собраны некоторые факты из родословной митрополита Японского Сергия (Тихомирова), уточнены многие даты и имена, прослежены родственные и дружеские связи. Приводятся семейные воспоминания, фотографии из семейного архива.

The Alexander Family Chronicle

The Alexander Family ChronicleThe paper focuses on the history of Zagreb’s prominent Jewish family, the Alexanders (or Aleksanders), who were influential in the cultural, economic and social life of the city and Croatia for almost a century. At the time of their arrival in Zagreb and after the end of the First World War, they all belonged to the Jewish religious denomination; later most of them converted to Catholicism and one was an Evangelical Christian (Protestant). The Alexander family moved to Zagreb from Burgenland (Güssing) in the 1850s. Upon their arrival, they worked in commerce and were known as diligent businessmen. Soon they became respected and wealthy patrons well-known in Zagreb, Croatia and abroad. The second-generation family members were distinguished physicians, lawyers, engineers, artists, professors and businessmen. They formed marriage alliances with Zagreb’s prominent Jewish and Catholic families and socialised with the nobility, thus making acquaintances and forming social networks that upgraded their social status. Also, they were cosmopolitans with one foot in Zagreb and the other in Vienna. Thereby, Budapest was not far-fetched for them. Among the most prominent and distinguished family members, one finds the brothers Aleksander/Šandor (1866–1929) and Samuel David (1862–1943). They were well-respected industrialists, founders of Zagreb’s brewery, malt factory and cement factory. They were also board members of several banks and founders of industrialists’ associations. Thus, their work and diligence were much appreciated during the First World War, for which Aleksander was awarded an Austro-Hungarian noble title. The post-war unification of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes had no negative impact on their social standing. Thereby, the brothers managed to continue their business successfully, and were greatly appreciated by the newly formed political elite. Later, at the beginning of the Second World War, the majority of the family members managed to escape Nazi persecution, while some perished in the Holocaust. Today, descendants of this large family live scattered around the world, in Israel, the United States, Italy and Zagreb. The only visible memory trace – proof of the family’s existence in Zagreb – are the stairs in the Tuškanac city park, named after Šandor von Alexander of Sesvete. Kronika rodziny AlexanderW tekście zaprezentowana jest historia rodziny Alexander (Aleksander), żydowskiej rodziny z Zagrzebia, która prawie przez sto lat odgrywała ważną rolę w gospodarczym, kulturalnym i społecznym życiu miasta oraz całej Chorwacji. W czasie osiedlenia się w Zagrzebiu wszyscy członkowie rodziny byli wyznawcami judaizmu, jednak do 1941 roku większość z nich przeszła na katolicyzm, a jeden z nich dołączył do wyznawców kościoła ewangelickiego. Rodzina do Zagrzebia przybyła w połowie XIX wieku z terenu Gradišće (Burgenland). Po osiedleniu się zaczęła działać w handlu, a ponieważ członkowie rodziny byli niezwykle pracowici, już przed końcem XIX wieku rodzina stała się jedną z najbardziej szanowanych i majętnych, zarówno w Zagrzebiu, jak i w Chorwacji, a nawet poza nią. Już w drugim pokoleniu członkowie rodziny wyróżniali się jako znakomici lekarze, prawnicy, inżynierowie, artyści, profesorowie i przedsiębiorcy. W Zagrzebiu zawierali małżeństwa z członkami wpływowych rodzin, zarówno żydowskich, jak i katolickich, pozostawali w stosunkach towarzyskich z lokalną elitą i w ten sposób zyskali wysoki status w otoczeniu. Byli kosmopolitami: życie dzielili między Zagrzeb i Wiedeń, a i Budapeszt nie był im obcy. Wśród nich swoimi talentami wyróżniali się bracia Aleksander/Šandor (1866–1929) i Samuel David (1862-1943). Byli szanowanymi przemysłowcami: założyli zagrzebski browar, fabrykę słodu, olejarnię, cementownię i inne obiekty przemysłowe w Zagrzebiu. Zasiadali w zarządach kilku zagrzebskich banków, założyli także kilka towarzystw przemysłowych. Wyróżnili się w czasie I wojny światowej, a Aleksander otrzymał węgierski tytuł szlachecki za swoją działalność humanitarną. Okres Królestwa SHS/Jugosławii również nie zagroził ich pozycji, co więcej – nadal z powodzeniem pracowali i działali. Po wybuchu II wojny światowej większość członków rodziny opuściła Niezależne Państwo Chorwackie, kilkoro z nich zginęło w czasie Holokaustu. Obecnie potomkowie tej wielkiej rodziny mieszkają w Izraelu, Stanach Zjednoczonych Ameryki, we Włoszech oraz w Zagrzebiu, a o ich obecności w historii miasta świadczą schody na Tuškanacu, które noszą imię Šandora Alexandra Sesveckiego.

The Teleuts: from non-Russians to Indigenous Minority of the North’

This paper concerns the study of the specifics of self-consciousness and self-identity of one of the indige-nous minorities of Siberia — the Teleuts, in different periods of their ethnic history from the mid. 18th century until the present time. Main forms of Teleuts’ identity are considered: national; class; ethnic; ancestral and local. The instances of using various ethnonyms, genonymums and class attributes by Teleuts are analyzed. Identity multi-variance is considered as a mechanism of minority self-preservation and adaptation to the continuous assimilative influence of the nonethnic majority. The paper is based on the archival sources and field materials of the author collected during the expeditions to Teleuts in 1978–2014. The field materials include samples of the folklore, writ-ten folk literature, records of biographies, family chronicles and narratives about other societies recorded by the author. It has been shown how Teleuts ideas about other societies adjusted in the course of their adaptation to the new social and cultural environment within the Russian state. The attention has been drawn to how the ethnic consolidation of the Teleuts in the 19th–20th cc. transformed the local self-consciousness and self-identity. The names associated with small territorial communities often acquired derogatory sense and transferred from endo- to exo-type. It has been deduced how the legal status of the ethnic group within the state influences development of their ethnic culture. Notably, the non-Russians status of the Teleuts brought to them some rights and privileges in terms of the land tenure, taxes and exemption from the compulsory military service. On one hand, this has been helping to strengthen the national identity of the Teleuts, but on the other hand, it facilitates their ethnic self-affirmation. Teleuts have always been proud with their non-Russians status within the Russian state. The ethnic status of the Teleuts in the post-Soviet period is protected by their official recognition in 1989 as a separate ethnic group and subsequent affiliation with the indigenous minorities of the North.

Anti-individualism in the Victorian Family Chronicle

AbstractThe bildungsroman privileges singularity: the unique and, often, the only child. This essay turns away from familiar literary narratives of a protagonist's personal development in order to examine the narrative possibilities of a genre that instead maintains focus on a group of siblings: the Victorian family chronicle. Family chronicles understand their large families as systems; they celebrate the replaceability of relationships rather than the irreplaceability of individuals. By insisting that a flourishing group can function in the absence of any particular person, they achieve fulfillment not in individualist plots but in group activities and brimful houses. The most influential Victorian family chronicler was Charlotte Mary Yonge. Yonge's episodic form was taken up by Anthony Trollope, Margaret Oliphant, Louisa May Alcott, and Margaret Sidney. These writers’ chronicles are non-protagonistic, nearly plotless, and potentially endless. They have been dismissed as minor works; nonetheless the anti-individualism of the large family chronicle offers an innovative approach to the nineteenth-century novel's tense negotiation between individual needs and group membership. Glimpses of chronicle narration can be seen operating within and against the competitive character systems that dominate canonical Victorian novels. A twentieth-century variant, Gilbreth and Carey's Cheaper by the Dozen, proves that the mutualistic form is also capable of hardening the boundaries around a family unit in order to compete in a capitalist marketplace. Nonetheless, the family chronicles developed by Yonge model a social economy in which both narrative and economic resources are not concentrated on a single striver but are distributed across a system.

December 1989 and the concept of revolution in the prose of Romanian women writers

Whenever the topic of revolution is at stake nowadays, Romanian people from different walks of life usually think of December 1989. The tragic events that led to the regime change have left a permanent mark on many people’s lives. Many contemporary writers and critics have written about it, but there is still a long way until the individual and the cultural trauma is healed. Since little has been published in English about the literary work of contemporary Romanian women writers, this paper aims to culturally translate the subject and to provide insights into their perspectives. From a theoretical point of view, it explores the perceptions of the concept of revolution seen either as a change of direction (a moment in time) or as a cyclical process (a flowing gyre). The selected corpus includes: a poetic novel, The Fox Was Ever the Hunter by Herta Müller; a diary, The Witnessing Wall by Florența Albu; a novel made of individual stories, One Sky Above Them by Ruxandra Cesereanu; a family chronicle, The Immigrant from Biggin Hill by Lăcrămioara Stoenescu; and a first-person retrospective novel, Fontana di Trevi by Gabriela Adameșteanu. Each of them tackles the idea of revolution in a distinct manner, which suggests the existence of a literary corpus by women writers that resonates in various ways with the original conflict and contributes significantly to its cultural memory.

Between small village and world: trilogy “Ost” by Ulas Samchuk

The paper considers the trilogy of novels by Ulas Samchuk “Ost” as a genre variety of a family chronicle. The main issues are its genre nature, correlation of the work with traditions of the classic Ukrainian novel and the modern novel forms, its relation to the concept of “high literature”, the ideological and aesthetic views of the author.
 The main point of the paper is the interpretation of Ulas Samchuk’s novel as an attempt to implement the idea of high literature substantiated by him. The concept of high literature in Ulas Samchuk’s sense is related to the concept of classical literature, and the very idea of literary work in exile is connected with the idea of the lost statehood.
 The realistic basis of Ulas Samchuk’s novels originates in his understanding of realism as an artistic style and principle of depicting reality, the “universal key to the door of reality”. At the same time, the researcher testifies to the blurring of style shapes in Ulas Samchuk’s postwar prose and points to the combination of realistic traditions and modernist tendencies in it.
 Focusing on the concept of generation and family in the novel, the author emphasizes the relations between the generations, because each one plays its significant role in the complex drama of the family and national histories. The family, as the subject of action and one of the main actors in the theater of history, becomes a symbolic embodiment of the trauma generated by history.
 The notion of idyllic chronotope is connected with the sacred space of family, the motive of searching harmony. The basic element of such chronotope is the topos of hamlet as a form of ideal national existence. The idea of destroying the hamlet during the revolution is related to the process of destroying the family idyll. In general, the history of Moroz’s family in Ulas Samchuk’s novel is a reflection of the national history, and the destroyed space of the family is a field in which the Soviet totalitarianism repressive mechanisms were tested.

Репрезентанты концепта ПАМЯТЬ в свете новых задач стилистики

Starting with the definition of style by K.A. Dolinin, the article proposes to reflect on the perspectives of an interdisciplinary approach to stylistic research, using primarily the achievements of psychology and philosophy, as the style of a literary work is the result of the subject’s choices, which in turn result from his/her individual way of thinking. The interdisciplinary approach will also allow for more effective aesthetic assessment of the work. The article analyses three literary texts based on memories: The childhood years of Bagrov-grandson, serving as a continuation of the Family Chronicle by S.T. Aksakov, The Life of Arsenyev by I.A. Bunin and Be Like Children by V.A. Sharov. On the example of language constructions forming the concept of MEMORY, the researcher shows the factors that influence the choice of language means that ultimately create the individual style of the author. The study proves that this choice is influenced by non-linguistic factors: the situational context, era, the author’s professional and personal experience and education, philosophicaland aesthetic ideas, and other important circumstances that guide the artist’s thinking. Genre rules and current tastes are also of importance. The study shows that the ratio of the number of language constructions regarding experience memory and information memory can characterize the individual style of a given author. It also proves that a broader interdisciplinary view of style allows to see more determinants of the aesthetic value of a work. Among them are: the harmonious structure of the text including its spatial and temporal organization, and the compliance with the broadly understood norm that involves not only the linguistic but also the mental layer of the text, as expressed by appropriately selected means.

Family Chronicle

Family Chronicle