TO THE PROBLEM OF GENRE SPECIFICITY OF SKETCHES BY A.M. DERIBAS ABOUT OLD ODESSA

Abstract

The article deals with historical and memorial sketches by A.M. Deribas, a prominent public character of Odessa and a chronicler of its culture. This article is about history of formation of Deribas’ books and about topic-based variety included in his texts. A purpose of this article is to identify their genre variety, correlation of facts and author’s conjecture in them, conditionality of features of his essays, expression of Deribas’ personality in them, his individual authorial manner, level of documentation and artistic merits of the essays. Here, it has been identified connection of the essays in Deribas’ books with an anecdote, live story, portrait. Deribas’ essays have been studied from the narratologic point of view. Attention is drown to combination of monological word and dialog in them, correlation of objectivity in them. This article is about Deribas’ skill to create characters, accuracy, laconism and expressiveness of the language of his essays. The author of the book places in the limelight works describing the Odessians’ cooking traditions and favourite dishes: its topics, characters, genre singularity, peculiarities of narration and forms of expression of the author’s self. They are dear to today’s readers, because they have a nostalgic flair and demonstrate the author’s openness to dialogue, are often humoristic and give us a picture of our city’s life that is already surprising for us in many little touches.

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T. Yu. Moreva

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T. Yu. Moreva (2017). TO THE PROBLEM OF GENRE SPECIFICITY OF SKETCHES BY A.M. DERIBAS ABOUT OLD ODESSA. Вісник Одеського національного університету. Філологія: літературознавство, мовознавство, 22(1), 48-58. https://europub.co.uk./articles/-A-383452