“SCREAM” AND “AT ACQUAINTANCES” BY A. P. CHEKHOV (OPTIONS, HERO SYSTEM, INTERTEXT)
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DOI 10.18522/1995-0640-2022-1-10-24
The paper analyzes the story of A. Chekhov “At acquaintances” and establishes its connection with the tradition of Russian literature of the midnineteenth century, outlines connections with future prose and dramatic works of the artist. Different versions of the story are compared – “Scream” and “At acquaintances”, the logic of the “instability” of the figurative system of the story is traced. The author of the article moves from the traditionally proposed opposition of “then // now” (“Losevs, Nadezhda, Varvara // Podgorin”) to the level of semantic “recoding” of the character system (“Losevs // Varya+Podgorin // [Nadezhda]”), which allows, on the one hand, to bring together the story-auto-text “At acquaintances” and the drama-posttext “Cherry Orchard”, on the other – to clarify Chekhov’s poetic strategies, which the artist followed in the future.
Key words: A. Chekhov, the story “At acquaintances”, the editors of the story, the system of characters, auto-text, intertext, posttext.
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