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Article name Childish Associations in the Work by F. Dostoyevsky and in the Novel by Alain-Fournier «The Big Meaulnes»
Authors Dubinskaya M.V.Senior Teacher france@petrsu.ru
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UDK 821.161.1–31 (091) 821.131.1–31 (091)
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Annotation The idea of Dostoevsky’s influence on French scribers-modernists is well learned, especially in the aspect of influence on the writer, the literature critic and the philologist Andre Gide. For the first time this influence is examined on the example of the novel by Alain- Fournier “The Big Meaulnes”, and the theme of the childish associations, organized like a “spiritual family”, is taken for the comparative analysis. Firstly, the resemblance of the structures of childish associations, the characters and the ages, the educative level and the spiritual resemblance of the childish association’s leaders are revealed. Secondly, the resemblance of the moral changes in the of hero-teenager’s soul as a result of his contacts with the childish association’s leaders is also revealed. The article analyses the reasons of the characters and situations resemblance, and comes to the conclusion that it can be result both of Dostoyevsky’s influence and the typological similarity. Consequently, the typological similarity can be explained by the similarity of the spirituals types of the personages created by Dostoyevsky and Alain-Fournier. The polyphonycal structure of the novel by Alain-Fournier takes the polyphony of Dostoevsky’s novel. For example, the polyphony of the hero’s consciousness, the triple-based dialogue, and the presence of five-parted conclave’s situations, typical for the poetic of Dostoevsky are revealed. The author uses the methodology of literary analysis and the new approach, using the cultural facts and the linguistic peculiarities of the French language. Consequently, the artistic peculiarities of the novel allow relating the novel «The Big Meaulnes» to the literature for adults, but not for children. This conclusion opposes to the French philological tradition to relate this novel to the literature for children, because the polyphony relates to the level of the dialogic consciousness, typical for an adult person.
Key words childish association, spiritual family, typological resemblance, polyphony of the hero’s consciousness, poetics of the polyphonycal novel, conclave’s situation, triplebased form of the polyphonycal dialogue.
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