THE IMAGE OF FRANCE IN “MEMOIRS” OF P. E. ANNENKOVA
The article investigates the details of modeling the image of France in “Memoirs” of P.E. Annenkova. Topos of France included in the paradigm of Russia/Europe, is one of the chronotopic dominantof the Autodocumental text describing its conceptual sphere, embodied the specificity of the memoirist’s world picture, mechanisms of self-interpretation and self-description and represented in it author’s reception of the Russian-French cultural dialogue. The dichotomy France/Russia correlates with the semantic pair own/someone else’s, center/periphery. French reality is recreated in “Memoirs” as through the characteristics of its spatial structure and through the spiritual and moral reconstruction of cultural and historical sphere. Events of the private life of the heroine, the rhythms of the provincial world order are highlighted through the prism of history and the stay in Paris is defined by the semantics of exclusion, restriction or locality. The setting up of the young heroine consists not only of the family members, but also of the historical figures. As an important for the author guide in the process of self-interpretation is presented the image of a father and a model of Decembrist personality and culture.
Keywords: memoir, image of France, dialogue of cultures, imagologiâ, reception, concept sphere, model of selfdescription, dekabrizm
References:
1. Annenkova P. E Vospominaniya [Memories]. Krasnoyarsk, Krasnoyarskoye knizhnoye izd-vo Publ., 1977. 328 p. (in Russian).
2. Fonvizin D. I. k P. I. Paninu, Parizh, 14/25 iyunya 1778 [D. I. Fonvizin to P.I. Panin, Paris, 14/25 June 1778]. D. I. Fonvizin. Sobraniye sochineniy: v 2 t., tom 2 [Fonvizin D. I. Collected Works: in 2 volumes. Vol. 2]. Moscow, Leningrad, GIHL Publ., 1959. 523 p. (in Russian).
Issue: 3, 2016
Series of issue: Issue 3
Rubric: RUSSIAN AND FORREIGN LITERATURE OF THE XIX CENTURY
Pages: 116 — 120
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