Literature

T. Megrelishvili

To Problems of Poetics of Literature Peculiarities of Russian Foreigners

The Russian emigration as a phenomenon in literature was formulated abroad in many ways and planes, conserving all the peculiarities of Russian mentality and government structures. The central motive of literature of Russian Abroad is the theme of Russia, nostalgia. The second popular theme became the emigration itself. Also was put a question: to preserve or not the traditions of Russian classic literature or the sense of emigration is in standing outside from the frames of these traditions/ Maybe, this dilemma was in conciseness of literates-emigrants from the struggle into the conciseness "the national images of the world (taken from Russia) with another types of life and thought. The peculiarities of national mentality the poets and writers of emigration connected with the Russian landscape, the image of Russian fields, taking this point of view from philosophers of beginning and first part of XX century.

Also is a possibility to suppose, that these characteristically differences between the main genre-created peculiarities of memoirs in two periods were straightly connected with the processes of personality's social adaptation in emigration. These processes looked like having the different directions. If in period between two World Wars the process of one personality's adaptation defines mainly by that, how the personality can to assume itself in emigrant sphere, in post-war period this sphere became totally destroyed. The emigrant had to assume the individual niche in other culture, in question of refusal from own language and of transition in creativity to language of new country. So, became the actual in memoirs the description of personality's individual way of personality: it was reflected on literal process by the spreading of genre of autobiography.

These elements of self-conciseness sometimes were in conflict with each other and gave to author the different creative impulses. The very important opposite elements were national and intercultural beginnings with political conciseness. This arrangement of creative psychology gave to memoirists the ability of strange-like vision of Russia and emigrant life. Also it became thanks to characteristically for emigrants esthetics unity between the Russian and European beginnings. This opposition of conciseness definite the specifics of composition in literary memoirs of Russian abroad.

 

Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
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