Article

Name: «Farewell in June» by Alexander Vampilov as an epic nonclassical drama

Authors: V. E. Golovchiner

Tomsk State Pedagogical University, Tomsk, Russian Federation

In the section Study of literature

Abstract: The analysis of the first underestimated play of Alexander Vampilov «Farewell in June» (1964) reveals various transformations of motives of temptation, test, a contract of a person with the devil, and other complexes of motives. The path of the researcher’s understanding of the contemporary characters is defined by the known models of behaviour. A variety of degrees and forms of such models allows one to think about some relative independence of different plotlines and polyphonic non-linear structure of a dramatic action. In such organisation of an action, one can see the increasing importance of semantic correlation in perceiving consciousness at metalevel of separate components, situations, vital behaviour along with relationships of cause and effect (among the family, professional ones). An emotional perception with a catharsis at the end of a classical drama succumbs in the case of «Farewell in June» to the comprehension of a sufficiently complex system of action, the search for variants of interpretation of each character separately and of the play as a whole. The found strategies of the organisation of action allowed us to draw a conclusion that the first play of Vampilov as an author’s model of drama was an example of the nonclassical art paradigm. In the literary practice, such paradigm was expressed through an epic drama long before it was comprehended.

Keywords: alexander vampilov, play «farewell in june», polyphonic structure of action, motive complex of temptation, test, contract of a man with a devil, metasigns, metastructures, author's model, epic drama, nonclassical art paradigm

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