Authors
- Loskutnikova Maria B. PhD (Philology),, docent
- Khlebtsova Anastasiia V.
Annotation
The article is devoted to the consideration of the principles of historiosophical understanding of the military reality of 1941–1944 in the trilogy of K. M. Simonov «The Living and the Dead». The relevance of the study lies in the need for a full-scale return to the literary process of the name of the writer as one of the most prominent authors of the XXth century. The purpose of the work in studying the creative systematics of genre formation is to establish the documentary and psychological reliability of the plot time, with the specification of the semantics of the retrospective depiction of events and destinies in the novel «The Last Summer». The methodological basis of the article is the toolkit of teleological analysis of the artistic whole, which presupposes, in particular, the specificity of typological illumination of literary facts.
It is shown that the plot and compositional organization of the trilogy is determined by the real course of history. The three-part unity of the novel cycle is ensured by the through characters and motives, which allows the author to recreate pictures of war in the modes of heroism, tragedy and horror. In the dialectic and metaphysics of everyday military life, the negative of chance appears as something obviously natural. Productive poetic techniques in each of the novels are the multifaceted functional load of the novel characters, with an axiological-evaluative correction of their worldview and line of behavior on the part of the «omniscient» narrator, as well as reliance on a series of events, in the comparative aspect of which the plot-chronological principles are significant, supported by motivicarchitectonic means. It has been proven that the distinctive features of the final novel of the trilogy are the high-frequency practice of superimposing an evaluative subject-character consciousness on the narrator’s speech, as well as the author’s persistent appeal to the binary opposition «then – now».
How to link insert
Loskutnikova, M. B. & Khlebtsova, A. V. (2025). THE HISTORIOSOPHICAL PRINCIPLE OF ARTISTIC RETROSPECTION IN THE TRILOGY OF K. M. SIMONOV «THE LIVING AND THE DEAD» Bulletin of the Moscow City Pedagogical University. Series "Pedagogy and Psychology", 3 (59), 20. https://doi.org/10.24412/2076-913X-2025-359-20-34
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