| Title of the article: | The theme of creativity and «genuis code» in the novel by M. A. Aldanov «Tenth Symphony» |
| Author(s): | Bogdanova O. V. |
| Section: | Philology |
| Year: | 2016 |
| Issue: | № 3 (41) |
| Pages: | 97-104 |
| Index UDK: | 82.31 |
| Index BBK: | 83.3(Рос=Рус)6 |
| Abstract: | The appeal to the name of the novel «Tenth Symphony» (1931) by M. A. Aldanov and its epigraph brings researchers to the features of compositional structure of the text and its figurative system. In the center of the Aldanov’s story there are three historical figures — French painter Jean Baptiste Isabey, Russian count Andrey Kirillovich Razumovsky, the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven. Beethoven’s «Symphony № 10» is selected as the title of the image-symbol. However, the conceptual judgment in the text is entrusted not to the musician Beethoven, but to the painter Isabey, who opens up the story and completes it. The framing role is entrusted to Isabey, who is professionally familiar with the laws and regularities of artistic narration. The plot of the story is opened by another line associated with the image of count Razumovsky. If Razumovsky comes to the idea about the meaninglessness of human existence, the artist Isabey holds the opposite thought — about life as joy and life as purpose. It seems Aldanov is arguing with himself, trying to find the truth, to realize the rightness of one or another opinion. In the center of the novel there is the image of German composer Beethoven, who is essentially absorbing the traits of genius and Satan, talent and devil. The idea of the inaccessibility of creative excellence is the concentration of the philosophical content of the novel. |
| Keywords: | Russian literature of the twentieth century, M. A. Aldanov, historiosophical novel, the theme of creativity, creator and creation. |
| Bibliography: | 1 Aldanov M. A. Sobr. soch.: v 8 t. [Collected works: in 8 vol.] Moscow, Terra-Knizhnyi klub Pusl., 2007. Vol. 6. 544 p. (In Russ.) |
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