Verbalization of images of music in the idiosyncrasy of A. Grin

INTRODUCTION. The “musicality” of a number of images of romantic narrative in the works of Alexander Grin is considered and the result of using the technique of analyzing the “relationship” of the represented images of music with speech means of fictionalizing romantic circumstances, states and other characteristics of artistic worlds in the works of the writer is presented. The aim is to comprehend musical imagery in the context of A. Grin’s fairy tale “Scarlet Sails” and to identify the features of the individual author’s coloring of the verbal fabric of the “unmusicalized” fragments of the text.

MATERIALS AND METHODS. The research material was the novel “Scarlet Sails” by Alexander Grin (Alexander Grinevsky), published in 1923, and it was included in all the collected works of the writer. In this interdisciplinary study, a descriptive method was used, which includes literary and musical comparison, analysis of artistic details, as well as lexico-semantic analysis of keywords and their symbols from the perspective of a linguopoetic approach.

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION. The analysis revealed that for an objective interpretation of the poetics and stylistics of an artistic work as a whole, it is important to take into account the means by which the aura of musical reflection and perception of the reality imagined by the artist is introduced into the artistic text. It is established that the musical and linguopoetic analysis of a literary text makes it possible to comprehend the author’s ideological and artistic intent and the synthesis of the content of literary and musical images that reveal the meaning of an artistic work.

CONCLUSION. “Musicality” as a means of perceiving the surrounding reality, as a way of holistic attitude to the spiritual and material, is reflected in the unique personality of Alexander Grin and serves as a marker with which the artistic consciousness of one of the romantics and philosophers in Russian literature is revealed.

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