THE LYRICAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF I. BUNIN'S 'THE LIFE OF ARSENYEV' IN THE CONTEXT OF THE RUSSIAN AND EUROPEAN MODERNISM (ON THE QUESTION OF GENRE IDENTIFICATION) (Lyricka autobiografia Ivana Bunina 'Arsenievov zivot' v kontexte ruskeho... modernizmu..)

• Authors: Pastekova Sona
• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The ambiguousness of the genre structure of Bunin's Nobel Prize novel 'The Life of Arsenyev' (1927-1933) is determined by the complexity of its intratextual composition which developed against the background of Russian and West-European modernism as a variant of self-reconstruction and self-representation of the autobiographical subject. Up till now it has remained an open and discussed phenomenon in literary science evoking the creativity of methodological approaches and textual interpretations, which enable the work to be designated as a lyrical-autobiographical confession, phenomenological novel, autobiographical metatext, modern existential autobiography, auto-fiction, auto-reflection, self-identification, as well as 'poema' in prose, fictional autobiography, auto-reminiscence and memoir-novel. The problem of the genre identification of Bunin's text, which is perceived at the boundary between a traditional autobiography and a modern novel, is determined by the central lines of the author's conception of the work. Their basic feature is the ambivalence of the internal text organisation in the sense of: 1.- past – present, 2.- domestic - foreign, 3.- lyrical – epic, 4. - classical - modern, 5.- reality (documentarity) - fiction, which can be analysed in the discourse of the Russian emigrant literature of the first half of the 20th century, when the genre of the artistic autobiography reached a dominant status.

Keywords

EN

AUTOBIOGRAPHY; BUNIN I.; GENRE STRUCTURE; MODERNISM; RUSSIAN EMIGRANT LITERATURE

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovak Review. A Review of World Literature Research
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 17
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 87-92
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Pastekova Sona

• Sona Pastekova, Ustav svetovej literatury SAV, Konventna 13, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic, www.slovakreview.sav.sk

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09SKAAAA06057