NARRATIVE’S ALLEGORY (ON ICONOGRAPHIC MOTIF IN I. A. BUNIN’S SUHODOL) Cover Image

АЛЛЕГОРИЯ ПОВЕСТВОВАНИЯ (ОБ ОДНОМ ИКОНОГРАФИЧЕСКОМ МОТИВЕ В ПОВЕСТИ И. А. БУНИНА «СУХОДОЛ»)
NARRATIVE’S ALLEGORY (ON ICONOGRAPHIC MOTIF IN I. A. BUNIN’S SUHODOL)

Author(s): Nataliya Yurievna Gryakalova
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Петрозаводский государственный университет
Keywords: narrative, memory, ekfrasis, iconicity, visuality

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the iconographic motif and its transformation in the structure of the fictional text. The icon of St. martyr Mercurius of Smolensk is a visual and semantic dominant in I. Bunin’s story Suhodol. The version of Bunin’s realism is an integrating ability of memory, which determines both the non-linear character of narration and its fragmentation. The art of memory (ars memoria) turns into a conceptual status and acts as a strategy of view/writing