Георгий Адамович «Начало повести, из забытой тетради» (О тургеневском подтексте)

Abstract

The discourse of ‘Ich-Erzählung’ creates visibility, or an autobiographical narrative, where the author narrates the more famous classical texts on the theme of ‘love as strong as death’. The narration of stories is based on the principle of the repeatability of individual thematic units built on similarities and contrasts. The text that is being created does not translate into an autonomous story about Maria Leopoldovna, but it exposes the technique of reminiscence poetics. Quotes and auto-quotes form or create a peculiar language of the major art, where the names of Turgenev and Tolstoy are markers of the story. Turgenev’s subtext is connected with the way meaning is constructed in the story, which is told about love that has never come true but is remembered all one’s my life.