The image of the author and the image of the narratoring V.S. Solovyov's autobiographical work “At the Dawn of Misty Youth”

Abstract

A linguistic analysis of V.S. Solovyov's autobiographical short story “At the Dawn of Foggy Youth” is proposed, as a result of which some features of the interaction between the author and the main character-narrator are revealed. This perspective of the study allows us to consider the ways of artistic use of language by the writer, his principles of building literary and artistic unity and conducting a dialogue with the reader. Methodologically significant for the proposed analysis was the theory of artistic speech by V.V. Vinogradov, largely determining the main directions of research. As a result of the analysis of the language layer associated with the image of the main character of the story, a conclusion is made about the variety of linguistic means peculiar to the hero's speech: expressive vocabulary, evaluative vocabulary, colloquial syntax, nonverbal language, individual features of oral dialogue. The characterization of the narrator's language as mainly literary is justified by the features of the author's idiosyncrasy, the high level of his education, the task of artistic representation of certain aspects of his own philosophy. As a result of the study of the author's features in the text, a conclusion is made about the conscious veiling of the author's image, which allows implementing a game strategy in the author's dialogue with the reader: through comments to the characters' replicas, through the ideological content of the text, in which some provisions of Solovyov's philosophy of love are artistically embodied and thus tested through composition, the choice of genre form.