The article analyses a selection of formal and semantic aspects of Dziennik podróży do Tatrów by Seweryn Goszczyński. The first part of the work has been devoted to the context in which this literary work has been created, with a more detailed focus on the biography of the author. The main part of the article is an attempt to interpret Dziennik podróży do Tatrów in the context of the personal or intimate journal literary tradition, basing on an interpretation of the internal experience of the literary subject. Moreover, the work describes the problem of literary art which is a subject that is present in the analysed journal. The aim of the work is to present the changeable nature of the dominant of the author’s stance in the personal document genre.
The article deals with sound images in the poetics of Olga Grushin’s novel The Dream Life of Sukhanov. The author analyses the role of sound in creating time and space images, types and functions of sound, as well as studies the phenomenon of silence as a universal. Sounds act as mediators between the hero’s past and present, as markers of time and space shifts, and key events of the plot. All these sound functions are connected with the main aim of the writer — to form and shape the spiritual biography of a creative person whose life covers the 1930–1980s.
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