A.P. CHEKHOV’S COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES IN ASYA VOLOSHINA’S PLAY “THE LADY WITH THE DOG”
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DOI 10.18522/1995-0640-2022-1-37-47
The work is devoted to the study of Chekhov’s communicative strategies and the possibility of their use by modern authors when staging Chekhov’s prose. It is proved that modern plays based on Chekhov’s short stories reveal the peculiarities of the presentation of events in the prose of the classic of Russian literature. These features allowed Chekhov to express the complexities of subjective relations at the turn of the XIX and XX centuries, when for the first time the communicative crisis characterizing the relationship of the Self and the Other manifested itself.
Chekhov, in fact, not only points out the “boundaries” of understanding the personality of Others and the problematic nature of understanding oneself as Another, but also “suggests” ways to resolve a crisis situation. The author of “The Lady with the Dog” engages the reader in a dialogue with himself and his character due to the complex correlation of different ideological points of view and the assertion of the unreliability of any personal position, which has the character not of universality, but of limitation.
The result of the dialogue with the author is the staging of Chekhov’s “Lady with the Dog” by Asya Voloshina. The modern playwright declares that the essence of the dramatization is the author’s version of Chekhov’s story. Voloshina offers the reader /viewer a text in which she shows both her understanding of the main idea of the story of the end of the XIX century, and her own vision of the peculiarities of Chekhov’s communicative strategy, who invited her as the reader to find her own answer to the Chekhov’s question posed by his characters.
Key words: communicative strategy, communicative event, author, reader/ viewer, drama, A. P. Chekhov, remarking subject, hero.
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