Features of the narrative structure of the new prose by Lyudmila Ulitskaya

The relevance of the article is determined by the need to trace the evolution of Lyudmila Ulitskaya's creative search in connection with the publication of short stories collection "About the Body of the Soul. New Stories" (2019). The authors of the article rely on the experience of the study of women's prose [1], part of which are the works of the writer. The analytical body of the article includes the stories "The Dragon and the Phoenix", "The Serpentine" and "The Man in the Mountain Landscape", which have not yet received the assessment of literary critics. Problematically, the article is aimed at revealing the features of the narrative structure of the latest Russian prose. Observations of the poetics peculiarities of Lyudmila Ulitskaya's prose, the expansion of artistic means and techniques, as well as the natural deepening of the philosophical content in the literary text allow us to solve the following tasks on the methodological basis of comparative analysis: 1. To summarize the artistic experience of L. Ulitskaya in the aspect of the continuity of the tradition of realistic and romantic world literature on the path of aesthetic renewal of her small prose.To explore the typology of characters in connection with the changing spiritual values of the 21st century. 2. To consider in the narrative space of the stories the author's transformation of the names, their semantic nature, as well as to identify the metaphorical content filled with the artistic discovery of new realities. The current difficult situation in the relationship between the writer and the reader, the author and the critic optimizes the task of literary research of a new literary text that is functional for the perception and objective assessment of the writer's work in the context of genre and style searches for new prose in Russia. The result of the analysis of the new stories of L. Ulitskaya was the conditional division of the writer's work into two stages, the first of which is entirely connected with the formation of women's prose in Russian literature of the 20th century, the second is characterized by a kind of going beyond the gender space and is filled with the philosophical meaning of the hero's ascent from everyday life to Being. The final observations can be used as a reference point in the study of prose of the 21st century. The material is of practical importance when creating online lectures, in multimedia projects.

L. Ulitskaya, romanticism, tradition, narrative structure, poetics, plot, metaphor, typology, genre, character-symbol, style

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