Мир как Мозаичное панно (о поэтике новеллистического цикла)

Abstract

The article attempts to isolate the methods of world-modeling in the genre which is most affected by the centripetal tendencies — a novelistic cycle. Novelistic cycles in the Russian literature of the twentieth century constitute the article’s focus. Among components that acquire essential functions in the formation of this genre, we detect the following: a per-sonified narrator (or a system of narrators); a limited chronotope; the transformation of separate stories’ plots into a unified metaplot; a system of leitmotifs; and an associative aura. The article detects a dominant component of this genre in a constant balancing act between the organization of the cycle and organic flexibility of its structure manifesting relative elusiveness of the author’s concept of the world. On this foundation, we make conclusions about the role played by novelistic cycles in the history of literature.