POETICS OF DUALITY IN NOVEL BY ANTON PONIZOVSKY «PRINCE INCOGNITO»
Journal Title: Проблеми сучасного літературознавства - Year 2018, Vol 0, Issue 26
Abstract
The object of this article — a novel by modern Russian writer Anton Ponizovsky «Prince incognito», which was published in 2017. The article focuses upon the defining of the specificity of author’s conception. A way of gaining the aim of the article is an analysis of configuration of points of view in the work by Ponizovsky and investigation of such important motive, as duality. The image of reality in A. Ponizovsky’s novel is done through the prism of perception by two personages. There are ten chapters in the novel. Six of them include the perceiving of the world by the patient of psychiatric department of the hospital (1, 3, 5, 7, 9 and 10 chapters), five — by the medical worker of this department (2, 4, 6, 8 chapters). Relations between these two central personages are contradictory. They are the enemies because the aim of the patient is to carry out arson, and the aim of medical worker — is to prevent a fire in the hospital. But between them are harmonious relations too, because the aim of medical worker is to care about the patient, shut out his dispatch to Kolyvanovo, a place where is located the department of the hospital for the hopeless psychical cases and patients are send to it for their death. Textual criticism analysis of repetitions of the names, expressions, circumstances of biography, fantasies of both heroes grounds to count them as twins. Gasja (a patient) and Dzivan (a medical worker) lost their fathers (and may be — in earthquake). Mothers of both heroes become disenchanted with their sons. Both heroes believe in the tsar’s origin. And both heroes stand a fiasco in a collision with life in spite that one of them is active and believes in the possibility to change own life and another is passive and hides from the life. But finely both appear helpless and incapable to realize themselves. The finale of the novel is contradictory. «Prince incognito» ends with the picture of coronation of prince, his victory over opponents. But a reader understands that it is the image of fantasies of a hero which is doomed to near death. And a reader gets the impression, that all people in any case are such, as this personage – princes in their dreams and victims in reality.
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Valentina Musiy
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- DOI 10.18524/2312-6809.2018.26.129474
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