Title of the article:

ANASTASIA TSVETAEVA’S NOVEL AMOR: THE LYRICAL GENRE MODEL AS THE EMBODIMENT OF SPIRITUAL RESISTANCE

Author(s):

Tatyana E. Smykovskaya 

Information about the author/authors

Tatyana E. Smykovskaya — PhD in Philology, Associate Professor, Blagoveshchensk State Pedagogical University, Lenina St. 104, 675000 Blagoveshchensk, Russia. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3800-0239 E-mail: tarkatova@yahoo.com

Section

Philological sciences

Year

2022

Volume

Vol. 63

Pages

pp. 198–207

Received

February 05, 2020

Approved after reviewing

June 15, 2020

Date of publication

March 28, 2022

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2022-63-198-207

Index UDK

821.161.1.0

Index BBK

83.3(2Рос=Рус)6

Abstract

The study looks at Anastasia Tsvetaeva’s novel Amor, the first draft of which (1939–1941) was composed when the author was incarcerated in Amurlag, a labor camp located in the Soviet Far East. Tsvetaeva resumed work on the manuscript, which was smuggled to Moscow by some free workers employed in the camp, in 1960, after she had served her term of “perpetual exile” in Siberia. Yet the definitive, canonical text was completed only in the 1980s. The novel was first published in the journal Moskva. The paper examines the novel from a concrete, genre-based perspective and interprets it as a lyrical work, owing to its focus on the psychological depiction of the consciousness of the protagonist, Nikki, Tsvetaeva’s alter ego. The genre of the lyrical novel, to which the work conforms, determines its poetics. Amor exhibits a degree of multilayered lyrical fragmentation that frames several of its aspects: narrational and compositional structure (a multilayered chronotope), mythopoetic dimension (a novel about the authorial self, the poem about Moritz, and the author’s own verse productions), discursive design (complex monologues of a voiced and interior kind), portrait sketches, and landscapes notes. By making use of this lyrical genre during a period of the totalitarian enslavement of the individual, Tsvetaeva asserts the value of every human being and gives expression of her axiological and humanistic stance, aimed at defending personhood under any historical and social circumstances.

Keywords

Anastasia Tsvetaeva, “Amor”, genre, lyrical novel, lyrical heroine, lyrical fragmentation.

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