Powieści historyczne Bułata Okudżawy w ujęciu intertekstualnym : relacje tekst - gatunek

Abstract

The present article concerns historical prose of Bulat Okudzava, namely the Unfortunate Avrosimov (1969), Cases of Shypov... (1970), Journeys of Dilettantes (1977), and A Meeting with Bonaparte (1983) novels. The analysis was made with consideration of guidelines of the intertextual method. The text concentrates on one of the aspects of the mentioned novels - the presence of forms that are on the borderline of literature and document, literary and practical texts, literature and para-literature in their structure. The author tries to find the answer to the question of a meaning of the presence of such forms as a letter, diary, and journal in the prose of Bulat Okudzava. These forms appear in all four novels repeatedly; each of every major character of the works can be described as a homo scriptor. As the analysis shows, the (over) presence of the mentioned genres appears to be justified by a specific vision of the world and history; the writer urges to show how history and historical events are shaped in the consciousness of the heroes of the novels and how they are perceived. Moreover, this type of the world presented in these novels reveals the influence of transformations that have taken place in the post-1953 Russian literature; the influence of a phenomenon, defined as a personalization of a novel, is visible in their structure.