Трансформация средневековой легенды о крысолове в прозе Анджея Заневского
Journal Title: Вісник Університету імені Альфреда Нобеля. Серія "Філологічні науки" - Year 2016, Vol 2, Issue 12
Abstract
The article deals with the stories “Rat” (1979) and “Shadow of the Ratcatcher” (1994) by modern Polish writer A. Zaniewski. These works have not been studied enough yet, although they were translated into a score of the world languages. Our work is one of the first attempts of their literature comprehension. In the article we analyze the author’s interpretation of the medieval legend about the Ratcatcher in comparison with the pretext, we also aduce the specificity of its transformation in the historical and literary context. It is set that A. Zaniewski’s stories continue a severe tradition of the world literature that is the depiction of people as viewed by animals. In both works the narrator is a grey rat. It is a gloomy symbol of evil and destruction in the European culture. However the writer confides the “presentation” of a man exactly to the rat, interlacing the life of people and rats in keen situations. The writer shows thus, that “ratty” deeds can do both. In order to recreate the inner world of the rat-narrator the author uses such device of psychologism, as dreams-wandering, recollections, visions, internal monologues. The cultural saturation of the works is specified in the article. In the stories “Rat” and “Shadow of the Ratcatcher” the author holds a dialogue with the world culture at all levels of the text. While depicting the life of people and inhabitants of the rat labyrinths, A. Zaniewski uses allusions on ancient and Oriental mythology (Odyssey, Calypso, Niobe, Narcissus, Oedipus, Charon, Buddha); medieval legends and allegories (Ratcatcher, Ahasver); works of F. Dostoyevsky, А.Camus etc. In the article we consider some forms of transformation of the medieval legend about the Ratcatcher by the Polish writer. They are succession (composite character of the Ratcatcher), dialogue (with a plot roll-calls, invariant constituents of the Ratcatcher character modification), controversy (apocalyptic motifs, motif of the led away children, duality, orphic motif).
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Н. И. Ильинская
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