Music in the Protagonist’s World, the Protagonist in the World of Music: Liudmila Ulitskaya: The Big Green Tent Cover Image

Музыка в мире героя, герой в мире музыки: роман Людмилы Улицкой «Зеленый шатер»
Music in the Protagonist’s World, the Protagonist in the World of Music: Liudmila Ulitskaya: The Big Green Tent

Author(s): Tünde Szabó
Subject(s): Cultural history, Music, Modern Age, Russian Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Vilniaus Universiteto Leidykla
Keywords: music and literature; intermediality; The Big Green Tent; Symphonic Dances; L. Ulitskaya; S. Rakhmaninoff;

Summary/Abstract: The article examines the musical component in L. Ulitskaya’s novel The Big Green Tent. The first part provides an overview of those musical elements – realities, prototypes of individual characters and pretexts with musical themes, with the help of which an autonomous world and the image of one of the main characters of the work are created. The second part analyzes a fragment of the novel, which mixes musical and literary principles of text organization and creates a multidimensional connection with S. Rakhmaninoff's Symphonic Dances. The analysis shows that the musical component in Ulitskaya's novel performs a double function – constructing one of the plot lines and musicalizing certain fragments of the text.

  • Issue Year: 63/2021
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 157-171
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Russian