PUSHKIN'S BIOGRAPHY IN THE "LIFE OF REMARKABLE PEOPLE" SERIES |
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| 2022 |
| THE POETICS OF LIFE HISTORY |
| scientific article | 82 | ||
| 69-77 | иографический метод, Пушкин, пушкинистика, биография писателя, Тыркова-Вильямс, Л.П. Гроссман, В.И. Новиков, biographical method, Pushkin, Pushkinism, writer's biography, Tyrkova-Williams, L.P. Grossman, V.I. Novikov |
| This article is devoted to the analysis of the principles of implementation of the biographical method in the "Life of remarkable people" series on the example of A.S. Pushkin's biography. The work considers editions published at different times and reflecting the types of biographies typical of the era: A.V. Tyrkova-Williams' "Life of Pushkin" (1929-1948), L.P. Grossman's "Pushkin" (1939), and V.I. Novikov's "Pushkin" (2014). These works use different strategies of biographical narrative which affects the interpretation of Pushkin's personality and the logic of his life path. A.V. Tyrkova-Williams considers Pushkin's life and work, relying primarily on an emotional-personal attitude towards him. This brings elements of artistic style and subjectivity of evaluation to the narrative. Unlike A.V. Tyrkova-Williams L.P. Grossman bases his work on the principles of historicism and documentality and adopts a scientific approach. Therefore in his work, the context of documentary narrative is appropriately supplemented by an analysis of Pushkin's works. But despite the objectivity of the narrative the work contains a strong ideological component which is due to the time and place of the biography's creation. V.I. Novikov strives to demythologise Pushkin's image and renounces the traditional chronological narrative. His book is a collection of short novellas based on the most striking in the author's opinion, events in Pushkin's life. Such a construction of the book takes into account the factor of the addressee, which is "a wide circle of readers". The final part of the article summarizes the different principles of the biographical narrative, and traces the connection between the author's personality and the era, as well as the individual methods used. |
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