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The Dynamics of Genre in Vasily Rozanov’s Works |
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Hanuš Nykl |
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In his works Solitaria, Fallen Leaves and The Apocalypse of our times, Russian thinker and publicist Vasily Rozanov created a remarkable type of text which, for its radically innovative nature, was marked as a new genre by V. Shklovsky. The study deals with the evolution of this “genre” in Rozanov’s works and identifies its three phases. In his early works (О понимании, Dostoevsky and the Legend of the Grand Inquisitor), Rozanov was trying to write classical discursive texts. At the turn of the 19th century, he started editing dictionaries (Сумерки просвещения, Семейный вопрос в России, Метафизика христианства and others) which attain characteristics of a specific genre. From this perspective, the genre of Solitaria represents the culminating phase of the evolution of this literary form. The dynamics of the genre of Solitaria is not exhausted; the study summarizes the results of the leading researchers in this field, from which follows that other changes occurred in the genre itself. The poetics of Rozanov’s works grew by its own dynamics to the personalisation of the synthetic efforts of the Russian post-symbolism. |
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Keywords: Rozanov. Genre. Poetics. Dynamics of Genre. Solitaria. |
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