Z OBSERWACJI NAD WCZESNĄ PROZĄ ALEKSANDRA GRINA
OBSERVATIONS ON GRIN’S EARLY PROSE

Summary/Abstract: The authors in their article try to characterize certain poetic features of A. Grin’s early works.They compare the technic of the author of the ‘The Incident’ with that of Dostoevsky and Andreev. The essence of the similarity between ‘The Secrete o f the Forseen Death’ and the corresponding passage in the ‘Idiot’ rests in the authors’ opinion on the fact that the situations in both books are analogous. However the basis of the description of the main character, the position of the narrator, the linking of the composite parts and as a result the sense and reflections of this in compared texts are basically different. She illustrates the more complicated links with Andreev’s works. And here the reference to the author of ‘The Thoughts’ is superficial, because of the icongruency in the treatment of Andreev’s work in a context which is typical of Grin. The same conclusion can be arrived at about the analysis of ‘The Window in the Forest’ with reference to Andreev’s ‘The Abyss’. The article also contains some observations about the way Grin presents the landscape in his early writings. It is not concrete, lacks details and appears to be like snapshorts. The qualities of depth and intensivity are found accompaning various components of the landscape, besides the writer consistently uses antropomorfization rule. The comparative meagreness of colour effects is compensated by the rich treatment of light and shade. All these features determine expressiveness of Grin’s landscape. Summing up, the authors write that the majority of early Grin’s writings are characterized by lack of completeness in the sense that he has not used all the possibilities to penetrate deeply into problems which allows the authors to conclude that this exemplify Grin’s inconsistency in his early works.

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