Reception of Production Ideas of V. Meyerhold in the Autobiographical Novel "Tyapkatan" by T. Churilin

Abstract

The paper is devoted to a problem of literary reception of production ideas of the outstanding Russian Soviet Director V. Meyerhold. It is part of a research project “Interaction of art codes of different types of art in the autobiographical prose of T.V. Churilin”. The novel “Tyapkatan” representing the autobiographical prose of T. Churilin is considered from the perspective of the intermedial approach relevant for modern humanities. The intermedial approach to the study of the literary work, giving a chance to go beyond one sign system, provides for cultural and esthetic contextualization of personality and works of a “famous but forgotten” writer of the first half of the 20 century. Archive materials (letters, plans, draft sketches of chapters) taken from the funds of the Russian State Archive of Literature and Arts were used in the study. The materials and results of their judgment described in the paper are designed to enrich scientific ideas of creative identity of the writer, indicate versatility of his art talent, width of his cultural competences. Keywordscreative reception; intermedial approach; T. Churilin; V. Meyerhold; autobiographical prose; novel chronicle