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CONVENTION AS A LITERARY DEVICE IN ILYA EHRENBURG’S CYCLE “CONVENTIONAL SUFFERINGS OF CAFЙ’S HABITUE” // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2014. Issue 11 (152). P. 55-59

The article presents a short review of underexplored part of Ehrenburg’s artistic heritage – literary cycle “Conventional Sufferings of Cafй’s Habitue” – in connection with the phenomenon of the convention stated in the title of the cycle. The place of the reviewed cycle is accounted in the works of Ilya Ehrenburg in 20s of the XX century. The paper analyses ideological and thematic content of the text, its aesthetic and genre nature. The article deduces relation between convention as a literary device in the cycle and other arts that was Ehrenburg’s subject of attention. Convention as a literary device is compared with a line of cinematographic acceptances, what gives a whole cycle combination of essay and novella types of writing. Chosen locuses allow the usage of a round-up technique, which gives a panoramic view of reality to the cycle.

Keywords: Ilya Ehrenburg, literary cycle, convention in literature, 20s of XX century