Works where a diary entry is used for children. The diary is a specific literary genre

Anna Mikhailovna KOLYADINA (1981) - teacher of literature; dissertation student of the Samara State Pedagogical University. Lives in Smolensk.

diary like literary genre

To learn how to write, you have to write. Therefore, write letters to friends, keep a diary, write memories, they can and should be written as early as possible - not bad even in your youth - about your childhood, for example. (D.S. Likhachev)

The diary is an important and, in a certain sense, famous attribute of school life. But besides the usual diary (as, so to speak, a form of recording student progress), there is a diary as a literary genre, as the oldest form of verbal creativity. Teachers are well aware that many of their wards in one form or another keep their personal diaries. Without interfering in this dialogue of a teenager with himself, it is useful to offer them information about the history of the diary tradition, about the construction of a diary, about its intellectual and artistic capabilities, and thereby help them master the basics of this most popular form of written speech. The concept of a diary as a literary genre is presented in the article by the young philologist A.M. Kolyadina.

To acquaint students with the history of the emergence of the diary as a literary genre, to consider its features, I believe, perhaps already in the 6th-7th grades. If a lesson or other event dedicated to the diary is held in high school, it is advisable to give schoolchildren an idea about writer's diaries and their place in culture, primarily of the 19th and 20th centuries. Complete the lesson with a logical explanation of the basic rules for keeping a diary; give examples of diary entries.

There are many definitions of a diary. One of them, owned by M.O. Chudakova, precise and clear, seems especially acceptable for school practice: “Diary- a form of narration conducted in the first person in the form of daily notes. Usually such records are not retrospective - they are contemporary to the events described. Most definitely diaries act as a genre variety fiction and as autobiographical records of real people”(Short literary encyclopedia).

As a rule, diaries begin to be kept in adolescence. Daily entries may include summaries, reflections, notes about books read, newspaper news, or the weather. Often their maintenance is dictated by the desire of the author of diary entries to trace his own spiritual development; the diary also serves as a means of self-education and self-organization.

In addition, as Yuri Olesha notes in his famous notes “Not a Day Without a Line”, “... both Delacroix and Tolstoy bring<…>the same reason that made them, according to them, continue to write the diaries they had begun - this reason was the pleasure that both received when reading the previously written pages. To continue, so to speak, and in order to get again ever such pleasure ”(1929, July 29).

History of the diary form there is a history of its change in the author's and reader's minds - from the idea of ​​the diary as a daily autobiographical record of real persons to the understanding of the diary form as an artistic form of expression.

The history of the existence of diary entries in Russia can be conditionally divided into the following periods.

1. Pre-Christian Russia . In the literature of this period, there are only records of foreign travelers, mostly eastern ones.

2. X-XVI centuries. Diary literary works of various genres have been spread in Russia since the 10th century. These are texts of various types of the diary genre: “walking”, travels, travel essays, autobiographical records, which are still difficult to separate from journalism and chronicle narration, for example, Andrey Kurbsky’s essay “The Story of the Grand Duke of Moscow ...”.

3. XVII century. further development of the genre. However, these records contain, to a greater extent, information based either on personal impressions or on the testimony of contemporaries.

4. XVIII - early XIX century. The concept of a diary has been formed, in Russia the publication of notebooks and diaries, travel notes ( Gildenstedt I.“Diary of a trip to the Sloboda-Ukrainian province of Academician of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences Gildenstedt in August and September 1774”; “Notes of Prince Boris Ivanovich Kurakin on his stay in England, his departure to Russia to join the army, his journey with Tsar Peter Alekseevich to Karlsbad, and his appointment to a congress in Utrecht. 1710-1711-1712"; Vyazemsky P."From an old notebook").

5. 19th - early 20th century. The differentiation of all elements of the genre structure of the diary has been completed.

6. XX-XXI centuries. Thanks to the use by writers of a fragmentary form of writing, the diary form of narration is becoming widespread in the modern literary process.

There are works of art that either have the formal features of a diary or memoir narrative ( Spirin S."Horse meat (Notes of a cattle breeder)"; Siddur W."Monument current state. Myth"), or those in the structure of which there are documentary fragments (excerpts from letters, inscriptions on postcards, personal data, phone numbers, quotes from newspapers - "End of Quotation" by M. Bezrodny; "Memoir Vignettes and Other Non-Fictions" A .Zholkovsky).

It should be noted that the development of diary narration was influenced by new technologies. Thus, the Internet "LiveJournal" ("LJ") largely relies on genre structures that exist in literature.

Blogs are made up of “posts” (a blog post), each containing the date and time of publication, as well as links to pages with photos, comments, and the name of the author. But unlike a household diary, which is a system of entries associated with a specific date, blog entries of different users appear in the news feed and, over time, are replaced by others; the time gaps that actually exist between them cannot be reflected online.

The main difference between the "LJ" diary and the everyday diary is the blog author's attitude to the search for like-minded people, people who share his life position - to communicate with them. The author creates a communicatively literate text that a potential addressee would like to respond to in one way or another.

Regardless of the form in which the diary will be kept, it is necessary to learn how to make thoughtful entries in it.

Here are the ground rules (if there is a lesson, students can write them down).

1. “Not a day without a line” (Yu. Olesha).

2. Date each entry.

3. Be sincere and honest in your notes.

4. Don't read someone else's diary without permission!

In addition to household, you can conduct reader's diary, indicating in it:

• author and title of the book;
• imprint: place of publication, publisher, year;
• the time of creation of the work, as well as the time referred to in the book;
• it is desirable to indicate the theme of the work;
• outline the content;
• to formulate for themselves the idea of ​​the book;
• write down the overall impression of the book.

There are three ways to use the diary as a genre in literature (students can write in a notebook following the teacher's explanation).

Actually diary(diaries of Anne Frank, Yura Ryabinkin, Tanya Savicheva). The strength of the impression made by a diary depends to a large extent on its context, historical and literary.

Writer's diary. Diaries of writers, scientists, artists, not intended for publication, but nevertheless their artistic value often competes with deliberately created diaries of literary heroes (L.N. Tolstoy, M.M. Prishvin).

So, M.M. Prishvin kept a diary all his life. He was convinced that if all the notes were collected in one volume, the book would be the one for which he was born. According to the estimates of Prishvin's publishers, the manuscripts of his diaries are three times the volume of the author's own literary works. As Prishvin himself wrote, “the form of small diary entries has become more of my form than any other” (1940). And shortly before his death, in 1951, looking back at his life, he admitted: “It probably happened due to my literary naivety (I’m not a writer) that I spent the main forces of my writer on writing my diaries.”

Literary works in the form of a diary(“The Demicotonic Book” in N.S. Leskov’s “Cathedrals”, “Pechorin’s Journal” in M.Yu. Lermontov’s “Hero of Our Time”, D.A. Furmanov’s “Chapaev”, I.S. Turgenev’s “Diary of a Superfluous Man” , "The Diary of Kostya Ryabtsev" by N. Ognev, "The Village Diary" by E.Ya. Dorosh).

The emergence of the diary as a literary form was due to several factors, the main of which was the desire of writers to present the inner world of the individual through a documented text organized on the basis of a collection of reliable evidence and facts of the life of an individual. The consequence of this was the use by writers of the form of an everyday diary and a number of other ego-documentary texts. So, "Notes of a young doctor" M.A. Bulgakov are presented to the reader in the form of a diary kept by the protagonist.

Writer's diaries are entries in the form of daily records that have been kept for some time. They observe the external signs of a diary narrative - dating, periodicity; the author provides documentary evidence, conversations of people, excerpts from letters, own observations; there are few descriptions of internal experiences, that is, fixation of external events prevails. Unlike everyday life, the author of a literary diary writes little about himself, but notes everything that later, in his opinion, may be of historical interest, or selects individual facts and details, which together create artistic unity.

The basis of the writer's diary ("Cursed Days" by I.A. Bunin, "Whirled Russia" by A.M. Remizov, "Untimely Thoughts" by M. Gorky, "The Diary of My Contemporary" by V.G. Korolenko) are fragments of notebooks, real everyday diary, which are deliberately organized by the author into a narrative, which, as a rule, has such features of the diary form as dating and periodicity of keeping.

As a rule, the writer's diary is publicistic and often polemical in relation to the described reality, that is, it is subordinate to a certain author's idea. This goal is served by the documentary evidence cited by the author, fragments of people's conversations, excerpts from letters, and his own observations. And in this regard, it should be noted the convergence of the writer's diary with such genres of journalism as an essay, pamphlet, feuilleton. Unlike everyday life, the writer's diary necessarily contains an evaluative beginning; time in it is a largely conditional category, since the events here are subject to the author's intention.

Sometimes diary materials are used by writers to create works of art.

A few examples.

The diaries of Leo Tolstoy, as shown by L.Ya. Ginzburg, “had different purposes. In the early diaries - along with self-education, moral exercises - writing exercises, a test of future methods. There are also notes that briefly mark the course of everyday life.

D. Furmanov noted in his diary: “I am saving up materials: everything that I see, that I hear interesting things, that I read, I immediately write down ...”

The works of M.M. Prishvin's "Mirskaya Chalice" (1922), "Crane Homeland" (1929) and "Kashcheev's Chain" (1923–1933) are partly compiled from materials from diaries. Diary elements are also present in "Springs of Berendey" (1925) (later included in the "Calendar of Nature" - 1935-1939), the story "Gen-Shen" (1931-1933). Of the philosophical and lyrical miniatures, originally existing in the form of the writer's diary entries, the "Calendar of Nature", "Phacelia" and "Forest Drops" are composed. In the last years of his life, Prishvin prepared the book "Eyes of the Earth" - also from diary entries of various years.

How can one explain such a frequent appeal of various writers, as well as people who are not professionally connected with literature, to the literary diary genre?

The universality of this genre, the variety of its forms.

The ability to directly, freely express their thoughts and feelings.

The habit of keeping a diary can help a person out in difficult moments of life, when he is left alone in the face of grief or unresolved conflict, loss or choice.

For example, "The Siege Record" - the blockade diary of the St. Petersburg orientalist, famous Iranian philologist, professor Alexander Nikolayevich Boldyrev contains not only detailed descriptions of the suffering and struggle of Leningraders, but also the most subtle psychological observations of the experiences of a person dying of hunger, and then tormented by malnutrition, burdened with endless worries about the family.

“Her phrases were thrown onto paper, like the wheezing of a dying man, abruptly, with long gaps between them, inarticulate. But now I already know that this Recording is a big deal, there is a genuine, truthful witness of unrepeatable times, and someday her testimony will be heard. True, its language will become clear only after my enormous restorative processing, for very much in the Record there is only a hieroglyph and a symbol ”(1942, December 15).

The diary is one of the most democratic literary genres. Keeping a diary is available to every literate person, and the benefits it brings are enormous: daily entries, albeit small, in a few lines, teach attention to yourself and others, develop introspection skills, cultivate sincerity, observation, develop a taste for the word, accurate judgment, strict polished phrase.

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History of pre-revolutionary Russia in diaries and memoirs. Volume 1. M .: Book, 1976.

Literary encyclopedic dictionary. M., 1987.

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Encyclopedic Dictionary of a Young Literary Critic. M., 1997.

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Literary Encyclopedia. - In 11 tons; M .: publishing house of the Communist Academy, Soviet Encyclopedia, Fiction. Edited by V. M. Friche, A. V. Lunacharsky. 1929-1939 .

Diary

genre fiction, a work written in the form of small, usually dated notes about events in the life of the hero, his feelings and thoughts. The peculiarity of the diary as an everyday written genre is the utmost sincerity, authenticity, expression of one's feelings, as a rule, without regard to anyone's opinion. The diary in literature uses these features to reveal the state of mind of the hero, to show the formation and development of his personality. So, F. M. Dostoevsky published the original periodical - "The Writer's Diary", which consisted of feuilletons, journalistic articles, essays, memoirs and works of art, which was a kind of tribune for speeches on all topical issues of European and Russian. socio-political and cultural life.
The diary genre begins to develop as a traveler's diary - a story about what he experienced in other countries ("Sentimental Journey" by L. Stern, "Letters of a Russian traveler" N. M. Karamzin). A work of art can be written entirely in the form of a diary (“Notes of a Madman” by N.V. Gogol) or include a diary as one of the parts (“Pechorin’s Journal” in the novel “A Hero of Our Time” by M. Yu. Lermontov). Diaries of prominent personalities are also known in literature (L.N. Tolstoy, A. A. Blok etc.) and people close to them (for example, S. A. Tolstaya).

Literature and language. Modern illustrated encyclopedia. - M.: Rosman. Under the editorship of prof. Gorkina A.P. 2006 .

Diary

DIARY. This is the name of the notes compiled by this person about the events of his external and internal life. The very name "Diary" (from the word "day") indicates a distinctive formal feature of these entries: they are kept in chronological order, as events unfold, however, sometimes with more or less significant interruptions, due either to external circumstances or state of mind diary author. In any case, such records are not retrospective: they are contemporary with the relevant events. The division of the diary into parts also depends on this main formal feature of the diary. It is due to the date of the events being celebrated, and not to their internal sequence.

The second significant feature of the diary is its subjective form: the story of events is always told in the first person, the choice of topic always clearly depends on the personal interests of the author.

The authors of diaries are often people who have nothing to do with art. Even writers-artists, keeping their diary, if it is not intended for publication, do not set themselves special artistic tasks; Therefore, an ordinary diary, in most cases, cannot yet be considered as a work of art. But even an ordinary diary of an ordinary person still hides some features that may interest a student of literature. Among these features, the most tangible is the style of the era. Such, for example, is the diary of Vera Sergeevna Aksakova. Neither the works of art of her father, nor the journalistic ones of her brother, can so vividly convey the small features of everyday life, the inconspicuous bends of her contemporary psyche, the subtle shades in the worldview of this environment - like these uncomplicated notes entered by an uncertain female hand.

The diaries of writers, in addition to their obvious significance as a historical and literary document, are also interesting for us with fragments of artistic images, peculiarities of speech, in which, apart from even desire, the writer's inclinations of the author could not help but be affected.

But word artists can use the diary simply as a literary form. Here we meet with two varieties: either this is really a writer's diary, but intended for outside reading, or these are notes of a completely fictional person, a literary hero.

An example of the first variety of a diary as a literary work is Dostoevsky's Diary of a Writer. It intertwined in one tangle the most diverse themes: literary, social, political. Here, the choice of topic is determined not only by the personal interests of the author, but by the interests of the circle of his readers. And the very language of the "Diary of a Writer" is not the unpretentious language of an ordinary diary: the feuilleton style of these pages is designed for someone else's attention. The chronological form of the diary gives Dostoevsky a pretext for enlivening the main theme with insert remarks, references to personal circumstances, etc., which artificially (and skillfully) contributes to the ease of speech. The same form makes it possible to insert individual works of art among journalistic themes: the stories included by Dostoevsky in his "Diary" ("Bobok", "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man", etc.) are pages of genuine poetic writing.

Another kind of diary - the literary form - provides no less artistic possibilities. Examples of Russian literature include Dostoevsky's Notes from the Underground and Turgenev's Diary of a Superfluous Man. Maupassant gives an example of this form in his fantastic story "Horlá". In Dostoevsky, Turgenev, and Maupassant, the choice of this form is determined by the psychological tasks of the works: by forcing the hero himself to speak, they sharpen their psychological analysis even more, giving it, moreover, the character of a special plausibility. This last feature (giving credibility) is perfectly used by Maupassant, in connection with one more circumstance - with the fantastic nature of the main plot.

The story "Horlá" is a few sheets filled with random notes, feverishly made by the hand of a solitary dreamer. He is visited at night by some strange creature, to which he gives the name "Horlá". At first, the spirit makes itself felt with subtle signs, then more and more takes root in the life of the hero, until he, distraught from his persecution, finally sets fire to the whole house, wanting to destroy his tormentor in the flame. Such is the external plot of the story. It is fantastic and shifts the real setting of events. But Maupassant, using the form of the diary he chose, creates a peculiar effect here. In parallel with the development of the external fantastic plot, the inner story- the madness of the hero. The diary, written by Maupassant, thus serves as one of the most successful types of combination of plots. This combination, moreover, contains a realistic justification for fantastic events.

The connection between the form of the diary and psychological analysis is confirmed not only by the peculiarities of the literary form itself, but also by historical data. For sentimentalism and romanticism, which put forward the life of the heart to replace the rationalistic themes of previous literary movements, the diary became one of the favorite forms.

Valentina Dynnik. Literary encyclopedia: Dictionary of literary terms: In 2 volumes / Edited by N. Brodsky, A. Lavretsky, E. Lunin, V. Lvov-Rogachevsky, M. Rozanov, V. Cheshikhin-Vetrinsky. - M.; L.: Publishing house L. D. Frenkel, 1925

See what "Diary" is in other dictionaries:

Diary- DIARY. This is the name of the notes compiled by this person about the events of his external and internal life. The very name "Diary" (from the word "day") indicates a distinctive formal feature of these entries: they are kept in chronological ... ... Dictionary of literary terms

Dnevnik.ru URL: www.dnevnik.ru Commercial: no ... Wikipedia

A daily record of those actions and thoughts that the recorder can remember without blushing. Ambrose Bierce If you need to subject young man heavy and painful punishment, take his word that he will lead during the year ... Consolidated encyclopedia of aphorisms

See the book ... Dictionary of Russian synonyms and expressions similar in meaning. under. ed. N. Abramova, M .: Russian dictionaries, 1999. diary calendar, book; diary, mirror of the soul, daily journal, notes, diary, weekly, sclerosis, organizer, ... ... Synonym dictionary

DIARY, diary, husband. 1. Notes of a personal nature, kept from day to day (book). To keep a diary. 2. Daily records of scientific observations made during expeditions and research. || The name of various kinds of periodicals ... ... Explanatory Dictionary of Ushakov

diary- diary; student diary student diary ... Nanai-Russian Dictionary

Records of a personal, scientific, public nature, kept day after day. how literary form opens up specific opportunities for depicting the inner world of a character (Notes of a Madman N.V. Gogol) or an author (Not a day without a line ... ... Big Encyclopedic Dictionary

Sometimes the author withdraws himself so that we, the readers, can see the development of events through the eyes of a particular character, independently assess his character, actions, environment, comprehend the logic and philosophical background of the plot. Here are seven gripping novels in diary form, classic and contemporary, perfect for a lazy weekend.

Mikhail Lermontov "A Hero of Our Time" (1838–1840)

Rereading the classics for yourself, and not for show in your school years, you discover a lot of interesting things that were not appreciated or noticed before. How accurate, caustic and modern are Pechorin's statements about those around him and about himself, how dangerous his charm is for women's hearts and how important are the eternal questions that he asks about the meaning of life and the fate of his generation! ..

The Pechorin Journal - a diary was called a journal in the 19th century - includes such parts of the novel as Taman, Princess Mary and Fatalist. In them, the psychological portrait of the “hero of his time” is fully and multifaceted, because Pechorin himself describes what is happening to him, what worries him. Were it not for this diary, we would largely have to rely on the vague opinion of the colleagues of the disgraced ensign about his person: "a nice fellow, but with great oddities."

The history of the human soul, even the smallest soul, is almost more curious and useful than the history of an entire people, especially when it is the result of the observations of a mature mind over itself and when it is written without a vain desire to arouse interest or surprise.

Bram Stoker "Dracula" (1897)

The gothic novel by Irishman Bram Stoker is the "godfather" of all subsequent vampire sagas. The image of Stoker's aristocratic vampire Dracula, the lord of all the creatures of the night, frightens and beckons, chills the blood and excites the imagination of more than one generation of readers. The story of the sinister Earl is told through the diaries and letters of a young lawyer, Jonathan Harker, and his fiancée, Mina Murray, whose wedding was nearly ruined by vampire machinations. Welcome... to inhospitable Transylvania!

Only those who know the horror of the night can understand the sweetness of the morning

Evgeny Zamyatin "We" (1920)

The most famous dystopian novel of Russian literature is written in the form of a diary of the protagonist, an engineer with the number D-503 instead of a name. In an ideal (actually totalitarian) state of the future, freedom, creativity, love and emotions in general, as well as dissent, are declared enemies of humanity. Everything is unified, subject to a strict rhythm and routine, and law-abiding members of society are more like biorobots than independent individuals. Hearing live music, played on the piano, D-503 experiences an emotional shock, and soon falls in love and understands that he has a soul and a "dangerous disease" - a fantasy.

A man is like a novel: you don't know how it will end until the very last page. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading...

Albert Camus "Plague" (1947)

The philosophical novel-parable is built as a chronicle of the plague year in the small town of Oran, a French prefecture on the Mediterranean coast. This chronicle is led by a chronicler who hides his name from readers until the very end of the work. The narrator emphasizes that he recognizes only the power of fact and the laws of logic, but in his dispassionate, objective narrative about how people behave differently when faced with a terrible disease, very emotional sketches are intertwined, as well as philosophical reflections on freedom, human nature (sinful or divine?), the problem of choice and the absurdity of being.

All that a person can win in the game with the plague and with life is knowledge and memory.

John Fowles "The Collector" (1963)

This story of beauty and the beast, sorry for the spoiler, does not have a fabulous ending at all. A psychological thriller about a nondescript, notorious clerk, Frederick Clegg, who collects butterflies and is obsessed with feelings for a talented art student, Miranda Gray, was Fowles' first published novel. The book turned a British university lecturer into a world-famous writer overnight.

The second half of the novel is Miranda's diary, which she keeps in secret from her captor. The girl trusts the pages of her notebook with her fears and pain, hopes, memories and escape plans. Thanks to these lines, the horror of what is happening is more acutely felt, the tragedy in which beauty, talent, intelligence, spirituality, life itself lose in an unequal struggle with inertia and inhumanity.

Last night I thought I was going crazy. I took up writing a diary and wrote and wrote until I found myself in that completely different world. She escaped - if not actually, then at least mentally. To prove to myself that that world still exists

Daniel Keyes "Flowers for Algernon" (1966)

One title combines two works by American philologist Daniel Keyes: in 1959, the story "Flowers for Algernon" was published, and seven years later, a novel of the same name with the same plot. Charlie Gordon, a mentally handicapped man (in the story, he is 37 and a floor cleaner for a plastic container company; in the novel, 32 and a cleaner in a bakery), voluntarily participates in an experiment to increase intelligence. After brain surgery, Charlie's IQ is growing rapidly, like that of another "experimental" mouse named Algernon. Gordon's reports are reminiscent of a roller coaster: here is the joy of reading books and externally mastered knowledge, and the happiness of a lover, and the bitterness of realizing how mockingly people treated him before and how hostilely they are now ... Alas, the authors of the experiment fail to deceive nature, and everything is back to normal.

Previously, I was despised for ignorance and stupidity, now they hate me for my intelligence and knowledge. Lord, what do they want from me?

Helen Fielding Bridget Jones's Diary (1996)

This is an antidepressant book, with which it is good to relax on a cold winter evening in your favorite armchair, wrapped in a blanket. The problems of a single British woman over 30, which she sincerely and with humor shares with, perhaps, her only true friend - a diary, are close to girls all over the world. It is not surprising that the novel has become a bestseller and one wants to re-read it, disassemble it into quotes and advise friends with a broken heart.

… homosexuals and single women in their thirties share many similarities: both constantly upset their parents and are viewed by society as crazy

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Nizhny Novgorod State University N.I. Lobachevsky

As a manuscript

Nikolaicheva Svetlana Sergeevna

"Diary Fragment" in Structure

artwork

(on the material of Russian literature

30 - 70 years. 19th century)

10.01.01 - Russian literature

Thesis for a degree

candidate of philological sciences

supervisor:

Doctor of Philology, Associate Professor Yukhnova Irina Sergeevna Nizhny Novgorod– 2014 Contents Introduction Chapter I. Diary as a socio-cultural and literary phenomenon 1.1. Diary as a cultural phenomenon 1.2. Diary and "diary fragment". "Diary fragment" - the boundaries of the concept (theoretical aspect) Chapter II. Artistic originality of diary fragments 2.1. Principles of naming the diaries of literary heroes 2.2. Ways to include a diary snippet in artistic text 2.3. Psychological motivations for referring to the diaries of literary heroes 2.4. Dating in diary fragments 2.5. Graphic Features of the Diaries of Literary Heroes Chapter III. Typology of diary fragments 3.1. Typology of diaries as a scientific problem 3.2. The identity of the author of the diary and the nature of the entries 3.3. Typology of diary fragments Conclusion Bibliography

INTRODUCTION

In literary criticism, three types of diary texts are traditionally distinguished as an independent object of study: writer's diaries, a diary as a genre variety of artistic prose, and diaries of literary heroes in the structure of a work of art.

Each type of diary text has its own specifics, and therefore researchers use different strategies and techniques to study them.

Let's consider this distinction in more detail.

Writers' diaries (or real, real diaries of writers - V.A. Zhukovsky, A.S. Pushkin, A.I. Herzen, N.M. Dostoevsky, L.N.

Tolstoy, A.P. Chekhov, Yu. Nagibina, M.M. Prishvina, K. Simonova, Z.

Gippius and others) is not only a special layer of their literary work, but also a form of inner life, self-determination in life and historical circumstances. Sometimes they are intended for publication in advance (“The Diary of a Writer” by F.M. Dostoevsky, “Fallen Leaves” by V.V. Rozanov, “Not a Day Without a Line” by Yu.K. Olesha, etc.), but more often they are kept exclusively for themselves ( diaries of L. N. Tolstoy, V. Bryusov, M. M. Prishvin, Yu.

Nagibina and others). Such diaries become a vivid document of the era, showing how time is reflected in the writer's mind. In other words, through the prism of a writer's diary, we have the opportunity to look at the world through the eyes of its author, to feel the specifics of the author's perception of time, space, and events.

The diary as a genre variety of fiction is a purely literary phenomenon. It belongs to a fictional character who keeps records, the purpose of which is not so much to record the events of external life, but to realize the secret springs of his actions, relationships with other people. This prose is autopsychological, its value lies in the awakening inner “I” of a person. In the form of a diary, A.N. Radishchev, "Notes of a Madman" N.V. Gogol, "The Diary of a Superfluous Man" by I.S. Turgenev, "Diary of a seminarian" I.S. Nikitina, "Chapaev" D.A. Furmanova, "The Diary of Kostya Ryabtsev" N.G. Ogneva, "Village Diary" E.Ya. Dorosha, "My brother plays the clarinet" A.G.

Aleksina and others.

works are “text in text”, when the character’s notes represent a separate, specially introduced part of the work (“Pechorin’s Journal” in M.Yu. Ammalat-Bek's notes from A. A. Bestuzhev-Marlinsky's story "Ammalat-bek", Arkady's diary from N. I. Polevoy's story "The Painter", "Patriarchal Mores of the City of Malinov" from "Notes of a Young Man" by A. I. Herzen , "Demicotonic book" by Savely Tuberozov in the chronicle of N.S. Leskov "The Cathedral", "Levitsky's Diary" from the "Prologue" by N.G.

Chernyshevsky and others).

A similar kind of diary entries in literary criticism is called a “diary fragment”1, it is this term that we use in this work to refer to a diary in the structure of a literary work and define it as follows: a diary fragment is a part, a significant component of a work of art, representing the diary entries of one of his heroes 2.

Usually, a work that has diary entries in its composition belongs to one of the traditional well-known genres (story, novel, chronicle, etc.), and “diary” gives it additional specificity, has a significant impact on the structure of the work, the features and nature of the narrative . As V.V. Kudasov, the “diary fragment” takes on all the possible properties and signs of the genre within which it will be realized”3. The brightest and most famous Kudasova V.V. Diary as a genre strategy of Apollon Grigoriev's creativity // "Sinful Readings - VII". Collection of scientific papers. Nizhny Novgorod, 2008. No. 5. C.

Hereinafter, the spelling is adopted: in quotation marks - “diary fragment”, if the phenomenon of Russian literature studied in the dissertation is meant; without quotes, if we are talking about a part of a work of art representing the diary entries of one of its heroes.

Kudasova V.V. Diary as a genre strategy of Apollon Grigoriev's creativity // "Sinful Readings - VII". Collection of scientific papers. Nizhny Novgorod, 2008. No. 5. C.

An example of this mutual influence is Pechorin's Journal in Lermontov's novel A Hero of Our Time.

The diary in the structure of a work of art is a phenomenon that is quite common in Russian literature of the 19th century, but relatively little studied. So, for example, the problem of interaction in nm of artistic and documentary principles, "truth" and fiction remains debatable. The main question in studies on this topic is to what extent the authors follow some real-life diary.

However, there is doubt as to how necessary the discovery of such a primary source is, because it is not the correspondence to some primary text that is important, but the recreation of the “inner voice” of the hero who keeps the notes. Why does this problem of opposing fiction and authenticity arise? Probably, by analogy with the writer's diaries, which, as we wrote above, are a "document" of the era, and reliability is presented in them to a greater extent. In artistic "diary" prose (including when a diary fragment is also used), documentaryism is a more complex phenomenon. This is a subjectively perceived reality, since the boundaries between the author and the literary hero in this case are sometimes unsteady and blurred.

The form of the narration is chosen taking into account already existing method keeping a diary, such as she was entrenched in life:

diary entries, as a rule, are dated, kept periodically, etc., however, unlike, for example, the diaries of real people, the diaries of literary heroes are created by the authors to realize a certain artistic tasks.

In this regard, when studying a diary fragment, one should take into account the fact that such diaries have their own specifics.

Therefore, the rigid, formal framework of a diary in the structure of a literary text must be carefully applied to diary entries - often these entries are diaries in essence, but not in form.

As for the diaries of writers, in their study (in addition to personal records) we can rely on biography, notes of friends, relatives and close people. If we consider a diary fragment or a diary as an independent work, then the fact that the author of the diary is a literary hero, and not a real person, who is revealed in the work mainly through the word, becomes significant, and the diary is the word of the hero in his immediate personal manifestation.

In the diary, the writer appears as an ordinary person, seeking to understand his inner world, to comprehend events. In it, he moves away from the conditional, playful nature of creativity. Another thing is a diary as a part, a fragment of a work. It attracts the artist of the word with great compositional possibilities, allows you to create the impression of a free expression of thoughts, feelings and experiences, as well as more fully and deeply reveal the character of the hero, the subtlest movements of his soul.

Addressing the problem of the diary fragment is one of interesting ways literary analysis. At the same time, the presence of a significant number of well-known works, which include a similar form of depiction of the inner world of the main character, opens up great opportunities for research in the field of diaries and ego literature in general.

Let us highlight the main trends in the study of different types of diary texts (writers' diaries, fiction in the form of a diary and a diary fragment), because, as can be seen from the previous analysis, the approaches intersect and interact in many respects. When studying writer's diaries, they often use the tools that have been developed in the analysis of fiction in the form of a diary. It should be noted that at present the study of writers' diaries, not just as a writer's creative laboratory4, but also as a form of his inner life, has become one of the priority areas in studies of autopsychological forms of literature.

This is due, firstly, to the fact that at the turn of the century, the diaries of many Russian writers became available to the general reader, both previously unpublished (Yu. Nagibin, M. Prishvin and Z. Gippius) and returned to the reader (I. Bunin). Secondly, O.G. Egorova "Diaries of Russian Writers" (2002) and "Russian Literary Diary of the 19th Century. History and Theory of the Genre” (2003);

E.G. Novikova "Features of the speech genre of the diary" (2005); M. Mikheeva "Diary in Russia XIX - XX centuries - ego-text, or pre-text" (2006);

A.M. Kolyadina "Specificity of the diary form of narration in the prose of M. Prishvin" (2006), Yu.V. Buldakova "A Writer's Diary as a Phenomenon of Russian Literature Abroad in the 1920s - 1930s" (2010) and others.

O.G. Egorov in his work "Diaries of Russian Writers" analyzes the genre specifics of the diary - its functions, typology, method, style, etc.

The object of his research was the diaries of the classics of literature of the 19th century.

Along with the diaries of V.A. Zhukovsky, A.S. Pushkin, L.N. Tolstoy, he also considers the diaries of publishers, editors, journalists who played a big role in organizing the literary life of their era (M.P.

Pogodina, A.S. Suvorin). A separate chapter of his work is devoted to the diaries of L.N. Tolstoy - S.A. Tolstoy, T.L. Sukhotina, D.P. Makovitsky, V.F. Bulgakov.

E.G. Novikova considered the diary as a genre of documentary prose, as well as a speech genre. She traced the development of documentary Fortunatov N.M. Creative laboratory of L. Tolstoy. M., 1983. 320 p.; Tolstoy and Dickens: the riddle of a diary entry. Bulletin of the Nizhny Novgorod University N.I.

Lobachevsky, 2011. No. 6 (2). pp. 704 - 706.

fiction. A retrospective look at the evolution of the diary from the beginning of the 19th century to the Internet diaries of our time allowed her to conclude that diaries were gradually losing their intimate component, which she associated with the public virtualization of diaries.

In addition, the researcher identified the differential features of the diary, gave an intra-genre classification of diary works.

M.Yu. Mikheev in the monograph ""Diary in Russia of the 19th - 20th centuries - egotext, or pre-text" on the material of more than three hundred diary texts written in Russia during the 19th - 20th centuries, dates theoretical background the terms "diary" and "diary", lists the functions of the diary, talks about its varieties, pays attention to the question of the addressee in the diary, etc. He supports all conclusions with an analysis of specific diaries of M.M. Prishvin, A.N. Boldyreva and others.

In the thesis of Yu.V. Buldakova "A Writer's Diary as a Phenomenon of Russian Literature Abroad in the 1920s - 1930s" being investigated genre originality and typological features of the diaries of the writers of the Russian emigration of the 1920s-1930s, special attention is paid here to the poetics of the chronotope.

A number of works are devoted to revealing the artistic originality of the diaries of individual writers. So, for example, A.M. Kolyadina in her Ph.D. thesis analyzes the form of narration in M. Prishvin's prose. At the same time, she makes a number of interesting theoretical traces of the history of the diary form in Russian literature, reveals the basic principles of the organization of M. Prishvin's diary. She also manages to make successful generalizations because Prishvin's diaries have not been studied in isolation, but in the context of Russian literature of the 19th-20th centuries.

V.V. Kudasova "Diary as a genre strategy of creativity of Apollon Grigoriev". Considering individual works of the writer (“Leaflets from the Wandering Sophist’s Manuscript”, “Vitalin’s Diary” and “Diary of Love and Prayer”), the author of the article comes to the conclusion that the diaries of Apollon Grigoriev “have a number of stable features that contribute to the formation of a specific genre model "5. An important methodological observation in the work of V.V. Kudasova is the idea that " theoretical science tends to evaluate a literary diary from a functional position, primarily considering it as an essential and significant component of the whole (novel, short story or reportage)” 6 ; ignoring its genre potential. V.V. Kudasova raises the question of the need to study a particular genre fragment, since without this a comprehensive consideration of a work of art is impossible. Such an approach allows a deeper analysis of various aspects of the psychologism of the prose of Russian writers. A.B. Yesin (“Psychology of Russian classical literature”), L.Ya. Ginzburg (“On Psychological Prose”), I.S. Novich (“Young Herzen: pages of life and work”), N.S. Pleschunov (Leskov's novels "Nowhere" and "Cathedrals"), G.N. Guy (“The novel and story by A. I. Herzen of the 30-40s”, etc.). Their observations are associated with individual works, so it becomes necessary to consider a group of works in which the diary is used as part of the text, in a complex manner.

There are a number of works that, at first glance, have a cultural orientation, but help to penetrate the atmosphere of the era, to understand the peculiarities of thinking of a person of another era. This is the study of I.S. Finishing "The Diary of a Guards Officer"7. The article is unique in that it carried out a comparative analysis of the diaries of the protagonist Alexandrovich Pechorin, a fictitious person, and General Konstantin Kudasov V.V. Diary as a genre strategy of Apollon Grigoriev's creativity // Sin readings: Sat. scientific works. Issue. 5. Nizhny Novgorod, 2008, p. 76.

Pavlovich Kolzakov, a person who really existed. I.S. It is no coincidence that Chistova compares two diaries - a fictional one, located in the structure of a literary text, and a real one. The fact is that, despite their different origins, these diaries have surprisingly much in common, which allows the researcher to assume that Lermontov, when writing Pechorin's diary, largely relied on Kolzakov's diary, which historically existed at that time.

Another direction is the study of the problem of the “nature of the diary” as a “hybrid genre formation, containing both moments of reality and an orientation towards literary character, associated with the need to select material and combine it according to certain laws of verbal art”: Yu.V. Shatin "Kuchelbecker's diary as an artistic whole" 8, A.M. Kolyadin “Specificity of the diary form of narration in the prose of M. Prishvin”9 and others.

The linguistic features of the diary text were considered in the works of N.Yu. Donchenko (1999)10, N.A. Nikolina (2002)11, E.G. Novikova (2005)12 and others.

As you can see, the attention of researchers is more often attracted to writers' diaries. Diaries of heroes, a diary in the structure of a work of art, have been studied less. Moreover, they are sometimes deliberately ignored by researchers. So, for example, in 1978, Natalya Borisovna Bank, in her monograph The Thread of Time: Diaries and Notebooks of Soviet Writers, made a reservation that “in [her] field of vision are only writers’ diaries and notebooks and only such diary books, such works of modern prose, in which Shatin Yu.V. "Küchelbecker's diary as an artistic whole" // http: // www.philolgy.ru / literature2 / shatin - 88. htm.

Kolyadina A.M. The specificity of the diary form of narration in the prose of M.

Prishvin: Dis. …cand. philol. Sciences. Samara, 2006. 215 p.

Donchenko N.Yu. Poetics of antonymy in the diaries of M. Prishvin: Dis. … cand.

philol. Sciences. Moscow, 1999. 255 p.

Nikolina N.A. Poetics of Russian autobiographical prose. M., 2002. 424 p.

Novikova E.G. Linguistic features of the organization of texts of classical and network diaries: Dis. … cand. philol. Sciences. Stavropol, 2005. 255 p.

These works constitute the bulk of research on this problem. As you can see, the study of the “diary fragment”, that is, literary criticism, is in the nature of an initial consideration of this phenomenon, and therefore belongs to the category of little-studied. Although the broad impact of diaries on all literature and their peculiar “landing” in the works of other genres and the renewal of traditional genres have been talked about for a long time, one of the first studies here is worth noting the above-mentioned work by N.B. Bank14.

Interest in memoirs, diaries, memoirs most often accompanies the turning point, milestone, landmark moments of the era. During such periods, a person experiences an ideological breakdown and begins to look at the world, the people around him, his “I” differently, think deeper, philosophically, there is a need to analyze what has happened and is happening in the world, try to understand himself and others. One of these moments is the 20-30s. XIX century, when among educated citizens the heroic views of the Decembrists were replaced by motives of loneliness, boredom, melancholy, sadness, characteristic of the younger generation of nobles who were disillusioned with Russian reality and subtly noticed by the classics of Russian literature - Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, etc. works. As N.N. Akimova, author of the article “It’s both boring and sad…”, or “It’s boring in this world, gentlemen!”

(the theme of boredom in Lermontov and Gogol): “In the extremely dynamic cultural situation of the mid-1820s. boredom becomes the arena Bank N.B. Thread of time: Diaries and notebooks of Soviet writers. L., 1978. S. 8 - 9.

clashes different ways self-determination of the Russian thinking person”15. I.I. Vinogradov, talking about the work of M.Yu. Lermontov, in particular, and his era, speaks of the type of personality that is characteristic of the dominant type of human personality - including among the mentally developed, thinking part of it. And similar eras - similar heroes.

The dominant type of epochs of timelessness, especially those that lasted a long time and were particularly gloomy, has always been the type of human personality that is known to us, in the history of Russian social thought, under the bitter name of "an extra person" 16. Thus, such a critical attitude leads to its owner to the need to speak out, to talk with someone, this “interlocutor” becomes a diary. Diaries in the 1830s many keep, and the very process of keeping a diary becomes a kind of marker of that era - it is "not only an artistic note, but a sign of historical time"17.

Tracing the fate of the diary in Russian literature, it is not by chance that we dwell in more detail on the period of the 1830s, since it was at this time that a significant number of diary works were published, which, of course, indicates a high demand for these genre forms. It should also be noted that at the same time, epistolary novels and stories close to diaries (for example, “A Novel in Seven Letters” by A.A. Bestuzhev, “The Poet’s Love” by A.V.

Timofeev, "The Last Column" by V.K. Kuchelbecker and others). It is also important, in our opinion, that the writers often used both letters and diary entries in their works.

They are present, for example, in the "Hero of Our Time" by M.Yu. Lermontov, Akimova N.N. "It's boring and sad ...", or "It's boring in this world, gentlemen!"

(the theme of boredom in Lermontov and Gogol) // Lermontov Readings - 2009. Sat. articles. SPb., 2010. S. 15.

Vinogradov I.I. Philosophical novel of Lermontov // M.Yu. Lermontov: pro et contra. SPb., 2002. S. 635.

Chistova I.S. Diary of a Guards Officer // Lermontov Collection. L., 1985.

P. 152 – 180. // http://lermontov.niv.ru/lermontov/kritika/chistova/dnevnik-oficera-2.htm.

"Ammalat-beke" A.A. Bestuzhev-Marlinsky and other works. But the frequent appearance of diary entries on the pages of literary texts already indicated that the epistolary novel is gradually fading into the background, while giving the opportunity to realize itself to other genre forms that contribute to the disclosure of the inner world of the hero - such as a diary. According to the observations of V.V. Nabokov: “The epistolary novel of the eighteenth century (in which the heroine wrote to her confidante, and the hero to an old school friend, plus all sorts of variations) had already set the teeth on edge in Lermontov’s time that he could hardly have chosen this genre”18.

In addition, one of the main factors in the development of the “diary” phenomenon, in our opinion, was the change in literary trends. The diary as a genre, having arisen in the era of sentimentalism in the 18th century, is further developed under the conditions of romanticism, and then realism that came to replace them. The contents of diary entries are qualitatively changing: from fixing predominantly love feelings and emotional experiences to philosophical reflections, historical conclusions and generalizations.

In the spiritual life of the intelligentsia in the 30s and 40s of the 19th century, in the well-known circles of that era, through which Zhukovsky, Herzen, Turgenev, Dostoevsky passed, Russian psychological prose was born, addressed to the inner world of the hero, which often helped to reveal the form of a diary. For example, A.N. Veselovsky in the book “V.A. Zhukovsky.

Poetry of feeling and heartfelt imagination” notes the characteristic features of the spiritual life of this circle: “Close attention to the inner Nabokov V.V. Preface to the "Hero of Our Time" // M.Yu. Lermontov: pro et contra. SPb., 2002. S. 867.

to a person, self-deepening, the ideal of self-improvement, the moral significance of diaries and confessions, on which Zhukovsky continued to insist, the understanding of friendship as a means of self-knowledge and mutual education; All this, as it were, predicts the forms of circle communication in the 1830s.

The new era formed a new personality, a new mentality, a qualitatively different worldview: “The defining feature of the personality of a person formed in the 1830s. - the time, "the most empty in the history of Russian citizenship", dooming "young men of the thirties" "to revolve in the midst of a high-society society, crushed and cashed after the disaster of December 14," was self-esteem (ambition) "suppressed by circumstances", which found a way out in daring deeds, scandalous secular stories"20.

The diary becomes more than just a form internal dialogue, but also a reflection of the soul of its author and the era in which it was created: “The entries in the diaries, reflecting the content of the inner, spiritual life of their authors, make it possible to see how a special historical and cultural character was formed, formed, the personality of the epochs of timelessness, which replaced "the heroic personality of Decembrism in 1810-1820s"21. At the same time, the diary in this period of time was considered as emphasized by the special precautions in relation to the protection of the contents of the diaries, taken in Pushkin era: “In Pushkin's time, diaries with locks were in vogue. For example, in Eugene Onegin, Pushkin described his hero’s diary in the following way: “In morocco, bound around the edges, closed with a silver lock”22. Even Pushkin himself, according to Ginzburg L.Ya. About psychological prose. L., 1971. S. 35.

Chistova I.S. Diary of a Guards Officer // Lermontov Collection. L., 1985.

P. 152 – 180. // http://lermontov.niv.ru/lermontov/kritika/chistova/dnevnik-oficera-2.htm.

contemporaries, had a diary bound with a metal lock: “The so-called “Diary” of Pushkin has come down to us - a large format notebook, enclosed in a cover, closed with a steel lock, and containing notes that Pushkin entered into it day after day in 1833 - 1835 , dating each entry”23, which, after the death of the poet, was returned to his widow N.N. Pushkina24.

“The previous decade was conducive to trusting friendships - to the exchange of opinions, noisy philosophical disputes, passionate discussion of moral and ethical problems. All this served as the subject of the "Lermontov" time, with its characteristic spiritual disunity of people, brought with it a distinct division of man into external and internal "25. The inner man is increasingly beginning to find its expression on the pages of diaries, which could not but affect works of art – one of the important types of historical and cultural reflection: “Intense reflections of this kind are very in the spirit of the times: “... our age is the age of consciousness, a philosophizing spirit, reflection, “reflection,” wrote V.G. Belinsky"26.

One of the first researchers of prose A.S. Pushkin, for example, noted the poet's attraction to initial stage creative path to diaries, short notes, which also testifies to the sign of that era:

“The sequence of the appearance of certain types of prose in Pushkin is curious, so to speak, the phylogeny of his evolution: first diaries, critical notes, anecdotes, that is, the form of short notes, aphorisms, sketches of thoughts and observations, letters interpreted as a literary given (and they take on such a character in Pushkin very early); only Feinberg I.L. Reading Pushkin's notebooks. M., 1976. S. 177.

Fridkin V.M. The Lost Diary of Pushkin. Stories about the searches in the foreign archives. M., 1987. S. 177.

Chistova I.S. Diary of a Guards Officer // Lermontov Collection. L., 1985.

P. 152 – 180. // http://lermontov.niv.ru/lermontov/kritika/chistova/dnevnik-oficera-2.htm.

then narrative prose... And these are not stages that replace each other, so that the next one takes its place - the previous one, "removing" it. What once was revealed in Pushkin continues to exist further.

Such an observation is also of interest from the point of view of the development of the personality as a whole. Thus, the initial period is often characterized by an appeal to small genre forms, which confirms the idea of ​​an increased desire for self-analysis of the author of diary entries at a young age: be it a real person or a literary hero.

There have always been different psychological types of people, and each era has given rise to new means for the manifestation and expression of this individual psychological diversity. The first half of the 19th century was no exception, which, in particular, made diary entries one of such means, which received an unprecedented spread in this period. Turning to the life and work of A.A.

Bestuzhev-Marlinsky, M.Yu. Lermontov, N.A. Polevoy, A.I. Herzen and N.S. Leskov, we will see that Leskov, for example, did not own his diary, because, according to him, he was interested in the inner world of other people, and not his own. As for Lermontov and Herzen, they, in our opinion, are confessions, intimacy both in relation to themselves and to their work. Bestuzhev-Marlinsky and Field diaries kept, but in their notes they tended to record external events, thereby becoming important on the pages of the diary historical facts, ethnographic observations, etc.

The situation of the late XX - early XXI centuries is characterized by a change in the ideological, social, artistic, spiritual and moral paradigms. Diaries in modern world are in demand, they are written and read, they are actively created on the Internet. However, the culture of keeping diaries, saturated with diverse events, experiences of the high Petrunin N.N. Pushkin's prose. Leningrad, 1987. S. 29.

of a moral order, attempts to understand one’s essence on a spiritual level, is now gradually fading away: “With the change in the function of the diary, one of its main properties, intimacy, is also qualitatively transformed.

The diary loses its purely personal character, and even if it is written "publication". And this happens primarily because modern society internally opposes the previous culture, refracting spiritual traditions. The culture of reflection, self-deepening, independence of thought fades into the background. There has been a genre transformation of diary forms: the former secrecy, intimacy, orientation not to an outside observer, but only to oneself, the sweatiness of the diary text is replaced by mass universal accessibility, openness to everyone, the desire to show everything that was previously under a deep ban.

A personal diary, a characteristic example of which is currently an on-line diary, receives a diametrically opposite status - “public”. Within the framework of such publicity, the original socio-cultural essence of the diary as a manifestation of the intimate life of the individual is discredited. The appearance of online diaries confirms the thesis about the destruction of the diary as a genre in its original understanding and purpose. In the "public" diary, the most basic property of the diary disappears - its confessional character, an appeal to the inner "I". Therefore, those important questions that were so often heard on the pages of diaries in the 19th century (“Why do I live?”, “For what purpose was I born?”, “What is the meaning of life?”, etc.), are now rarely touched upon. . Particularly relevant and urgent is this problem in the 21st century, since attention to a person (even if not real, but fictional) is the key to a full-fledged spiritual and moral development of a person.

The diary is a creative product of people's activity, while the epoch and time in which it is kept is of decisive importance. Other Krivolapova E.M. The genre of the diary in the legacy of the writers of the circle of V.V. Rozanov at the turn of the XIX - XX centuries: Abstract of the thesis. … dis. dr. philol. Sciences. M., 2013. S. 19.

In words, the diary acts as a unique form of self-awareness of the individual and specific comprehension of the entire era. The presence of this genre in literature is an indicator not only of the state of society, but also of culture at a certain stage of its development.

Addressing the problem of the diary is very important and relevant in modern science, since the inner world of one person is a source of many questions for another. And to answer these questions means to try to reveal the spiritual side of a person in its fullness and volume. And if one person is understood, then the society and culture of this society are partly understood, since each person is a kind of spiritual atom, a socio-cultural section of his era.

In addition, at present, one of the actively developing areas in Russian literary criticism is artistic philosophical and highly specialized content: “the science of the origin and evolution of man” 30. In the 20th century, its meaning is constantly expanding, artistic. Artistic anthropology, which interests us, is the knowledge of the inner world of an individual in an artistic image.

But human personality, from the point of view of Academician D.S. Likhachev, “always constitutes the central object of literary creativity. Everything else is in relation to the image of a person: not only the image of social reality, everyday life, but also nature, the historical variability of the world, etc. In close contact with how a person is portrayed, are all artistic means used by the writer"31.

See Orlova E.A. Cultural (social) anthropology. M., 2004; Belik A.A.

Cultural (social) anthropology. M., 2009; Rudneva I.S. The Art of Verbal Portraiture in Russian Memoirs and Autobiographical Literature of the Second Half of the 18th – First Third of the 19th Centuries: Abstract of the thesis. … dis. cand. philol. Sciences. Orel, 2011. P. 4.

Soviet encyclopedic dictionary. Ed. 4th. M., 1987. S. 66.

Likhachev D.S. Man in Literature Ancient Russia. M., 1970. S. 3.

Thus, the emergence of new forms, including the diary, not only in literature, but also in life, allows us to revise the traditional idea of ​​this genre and sometimes helps to draw heuristic conclusions about the purpose, functions, and criteria for selecting diary entries.

Based on the foregoing, the relevance of the study is due to the presence of the problem of studying the diary in the structure of a work of art and insufficient results in its solution. A comprehensive analysis makes it possible to expand ideas not only about the work in which the diary fragment is included, about the skill of the writer who used this priming, but also to enrich and systematize the theoretical information about the diary that is already available in science. Appeal to the diary in the structure of a literary text allows us to develop a typology of the diary, as well as to identify the specifics of the narration in the diary, to trace the evolution of this form over the period of time of interest to us in this study - the 30s - 70s. XIX century.

Thus, the problem under consideration is important not only in the analysis of individual works of art, but also in the aspect of studying the diary as a general cultural phenomenon.

The object of the study is the works of Russian literature of the 30s - 70s. XIX century, including in their structure the diaries of literary heroes (the story of A.A. Bestuzhev-Marlinsky "Ammalat-Bek" (1832), the story of N.A. Polevoy "The Painter" (1833), the novel by M.Yu. Lermontov "The Hero of Our time "(1840)," Notes of a young man A. I. Herzen (1840 - 1841), chronicle of N. S. Leskov "Soboryane" (1872)), presented in the Complete collected works of these authors. The choice of the object of study is due to the significance and significance of these works at this time stage, the inclusion of the “diary fragment” in works of art of different genres and their attribution to various literary movements of the 19th century.

The subject of this study is the diary entries contained in the structure of these works.

The purpose of this dissertation work is to explore the artistic originality and functions of the diary fragment based on a comprehensive analysis of the above works.

Research objectives:

to determine the specifics of the concept of "diary fragment";

identify the functions of the diary fragment;

fragment into a work of art;

fragments;

develop a typology of diary fragments in the structure of a work of art and correlate it with the types of literary heroes (authors of diaries) presented in Russian literature of the 30s - 70s.

The methodological basis of the study was the theoretical and literary works of M.M. Bakhtin, L.Ya. Ginzburg, A.B. Esina, N.B. Bank, O.G. Egorova, N.A. Nikolina, M.Yu. Mikheeva, S.I. Ermolenko, V.E. Khalizeva and others.

The work uses typological, comparative-historical, biographical, structural research methods.

Scientific novelty dissertation consists in a purposeful complex study of diary entries in the structure of works of art as an artistic device. In particular, in the work for the first time:

1) the specified subject of research is indicated;

2) selection and systematization of works of Russian literature of the 19th century, corresponding to the subject of research, including diaries of literary heroes for a specific period of time (30-70s);

3) a typology of diary fragments was developed, taking into account their correlation with the hero-author of the diary;

4) the problem of the addressee is posed separately in the diary fragment;

5) researched and identified artistic features diaries in the structure of the work.

The theoretical significance of the study is associated with the development of a typology of literary heroes' diaries, the actualization of ways to include a diary fragment in a work of art, a comprehensive study of the concept and phenomenon of a diary in the structure of a literary text, its functions and forms of existence, and a deepening of ideas about psychologism.

Practical significance work is determined by the possibility of using its theoretical provisions in the further study of A.A. Bestuzhev-Marlinsky, M.Yu. Lermontov, A.I. Herzen, N.A. Polevoy, N.S. Leskov and in the practice of teaching the course "History of Russian literature of the 19th century" (sections "Creativity of A.A. BestuzhevMarlinsky", "Creativity of M.Yu. Lermontov", "Creativity of A.I. Herzen", "Creativity of N.A. Polevoy", “Creativity of N.S. Leskov”), in the work of special courses and special seminars. The dissertation materials are of value for such sciences as cultural studies, communication theory, psychology.

Key points submitted for defense:

1) The existing definitions and interpretations of the literary term "diary" do not give an exhaustive idea of ​​the specifics of the diary in the structure of a work of art. The diaries of literary heroes are often analyzed by analogy with the everyday diaries of writers, which leads to a simplified, superficial and often standardized understanding of them, and this does not allow revealing the true originality and features of this type of records. The diary in the structure of a work of art (diary fragment) is original in relation to its predecessor - the everyday diary, it borrowed a lot from it, but is different in many ways. In particular, dating is more freely used in nm, which ceases to be a rigid, obligatory criterion for the diary itself. That is why the diary of a literary hero is more flexible, open, it is at the junction of literary genres: a diary, notes, memoirs, letters - it absorbs their characteristic features in various proportions (depending on a particular work) and creatively melts them down.

2) The nature of diary entries and their volume are largely determined by the genre to which the work belongs, which has these entries in its structure (story, novel, chronicle, notes). The novel and the chronicle are large epic genres, the story and notes are medium, which affects the size of the diary fragment and its content.

3) The problem of the addressee in the diary is a fundamental point. Despite the fact that the characteristic historical feature of the diary is its addresslessness, in our opinion, the need for a literary hero - the author of the diary for an addressee, real or supposed, still exists, which is reflected on the pages of the analyzed diary fragments. For example, Pechorin in his notes mentally refers to the “probable” lady, when writing a diary, Savely Tuberozov considers only himself as a possible observer, Ammalat-Bek, like Pechorin, focuses on an external reader in the person of Seltanet, while Arkady in “The Painter” Polevoy reads his own notes aloud, deliberately making them the property of the interlocutor. As for the young man Herzen, for him the dominant attitude is towards an external addressee, rather than towards himself. Thus, three main systems of orientation to the addressee are built in diary fragments: the author of the diary is “I” (Tuberozov), the author of the diary is the interlocutor, the hero-narrator (Arkady), the author of the diary is the probable reader (Pechorin, Ammalat-bek, young man at Herzen).

work of art, performing the function of "expanding the plot framework." As a result, the diary in the structure of a literary text allows you to take the reader beyond the central storyline, significantly expanding his understanding of the work as a whole and the character of the characters.

5) The inclusion of diary entries in a work of art is a plot-compositional note. The ways of including a diary can be different: prefaces, "found manuscript", the author's appeal to the reader, "initiation into the diary", "prediction about the diary".

literary heroes to diaries. Each specific case of keeping diaries is the result of some important reason for their creator. As a rule, such psychological moments form a consistent chain: loneliness - recollection - reflection.

7) A fundamentally important role in the structure of the diary is played by the graphic features of its design, allowing you to see the hidden layers of the writer’s literary intention, his desire to find additional ways of expressiveness (playing with the font (italics), pauses, defaults, omissions, indicated in the text by dots, dots and outline).

8) The diaries of literary heroes can be classified as follows: "diary-love confession", "diary-analytical confession", "diary-biography", "confession-biography", "satirical diary". This typology expands the prospects for further study of diaries in the structure of works of art. The diaries of literary heroes can be attributed to certain types, corresponding to the characteristics of these heroes.

9) One of the factors that significantly influenced the development of the diary phenomenon is the change in literary trends (sentimentalism, romanticism, realism), which was associated with a shift in emphasis from the outside of a person’s emotional manifestations to the inner world of his personal states and experiences. Over time, enriching and accumulating the artistic practice of depicting and explaining the spiritual and ideological aspects of the personality, the diary contributed to the formation of Russian psychological prose.

Approbation and implementation of the results of the research: The dissertation materials were repeatedly discussed at meetings of the Department of Russian Literature of the Nizhny Novgorod State University. Ideas, provisions and conclusions of the work were presented by the author at scientific conferences different levels: international ("Language, literature, culture and modern globalization processes" (Nizhny Novgorod, 2010), "Problems of the linguistic picture of the world at the present stage" (Nizhny Novgorod, 2009, 2010); all-Russian ("Provincial life as a phenomenon of spirituality" (Nizhny Novgorod, 2008, 2009, 2010), “Orthodoxy and Russian literature: university and school aspects of study” (Arzamas, 2009), “Actual problems of studying and teaching literature at a university and school” (Yoshkar-Ola, 2009), “Russian Orthodox church and modern Russian society" (Nizhny Novgorod, 2011); regional "Nizhny Novgorod session of young scientists" (2008, 2009, 2010), "Responsibility and dignity of the individual in the era of "new media" (2013), etc.

The main provisions and results of the study are presented in publications on the topic of the study, including 4 articles in publications included in the list of the Higher Attestation Commission.

Work structure. The dissertation of 174 pages consists of Introduction, 3 chapters, Conclusion. The bibliography includes 266 titles.

DIARY AS A SOCIO-CULTURAL AND

LITERARY PHENOMENON

In science, a diary is traditionally understood as a literary work in the form of daily entries (most often with an indication of the date), contemporary to the events described.

Like many other genre forms (for example, letters, memoirs), the diary came to literature from real life. Such properties of the diary as authenticity, fullness of life, sincerity, frankness, intimacy, lyricism, increased emotionality, confession turned out to be in demand.

In the philosophical cognitive context, the sociocultural space is often understood as a single semantic concept. According to Bourdieu, social reality is a multidimensional space that includes various fields (political, economic, social, cultural, etc.) 32.

The cultural field (or culture) in this case is understood as a spiritual program for the life of people at all levels of the social sphere.

The connection of the diary with social space is found at the level of subject-object relations (the author in the diary is often both the subject and the object), as well as at the hierarchical level - what place does the author of the diary occupy in society and what is the reason for the appearance of diary entries.

Vodolazhskaya T.V. Generations as subjects of the socio-cultural space:

problem statement and research opportunities. Mn., 2005. C. 30.

The presence of the diary genre in literature is evidence of the state of human culture at a certain stage of its development. Let's turn to different time layers that show changes in society's interest in the inner world of the individual through the use of the diary form.

Diaries were widely used as early as the 17th-18th centuries in the era of sentimentalism. It was then that interest in private life, and especially in the field of feelings, was very high. Diaries of real people became popular in England. In the same period, diaries could already act as a form of artistic narrative. Already in J. Swift's "Diary for Stella" (1710 - 1714) and D. Defoe in "Robinson Crusoe" (1719) the form of a diary is used.

The diary began to actively take root in literature at the end of the 18th century, when there was a need for confession and self-observation. It began to develop as a traveler's diary, as a story about experiences in other countries and was often combined with the form of letters, notes ("Sentimental Journey" (1768) by L. Stern, "Letters of a Russian Traveler" (1791 - 1792) by N.M. Karamzin) , was addressed to someone, became a "conversation at a distance", allowed to overcome loneliness. In this sense, it should be noted that the diary is related to the letter by such features as the description of feelings and experiences, confession, but there are also fundamental differences - in the case of a letter, this is a confession to the addressee, and the diary is a confession to oneself: “The letter is created not only with the aim of "speaking out", it is intersubjective - oriented towards the response of the addressee"33.

If we turn to an earlier tradition, we can find connections between the diary and walking, travel notes. The fact is that travel notes and walks have a certain sequence of entries, in other words, they are characterized by regularity. However, the diary, borrowing Logunov N.V. Russian epistolary prose of the 20th – early 21st centuries: the evolution of genre and artistic discourse: Abstract of the thesis. … dis. dr. philol. Sciences. M., 2011. S. 14.

the regular nature of the entries, focuses more on the inner world of the hero, and not on the external events described. In addition, the diary, as a rule, is characterized by dating, which is most often absent in travel notes and walks. In other words, the diary as a genre is formed at the junction of other genre forms, enriched by their features and, at the same time, acquiring its own originality.

In the first half of the 19th century, attention to this method of fixing the “history of life” and “the history of the soul” increased, and the role of the diary became qualitatively different: Russian writers made the first attempts to include it in their works as a fragment that began to function as an artistic prima. This process, when the diary is actively used as a form of artistic narration, is widely represented in literature in the 19th and 20th centuries. Thus, writers pass the diary form of narration to a fictional character for the sake of an in-depth study of the "history of the human soul."

At the same time, there are opportunities for stylization, a complex speech game associated with a greater separation of the author from the character. But often the diary becomes a fragment - a part of a literary text. As such, it becomes widespread in the literature of the 19th century. This fact is explained by the increased interest of writers in the inner world of a person, reflection, introspection, and this required new forms: epistolary, diary and autobiographical, allowing to reveal the hero’s spiritual world in a deeper and more comprehensive way, to show it in all its complexity and inconsistency.

In the 20th century, the attitude to the diary becomes different, and, consequently, the diary itself changes. If in the 19th century there were diaries that were kept exclusively for themselves, not for publication (for example, P.A. Vyazemsky kept his diary, not assuming that he would ever publish it, but in Lermontov M.Yu. Complete Works: In 10 vols. M., 2002. T. 6. S. 261.

published part of his notes under the title "Old Notebook", although the author did not wait for its publication) and diaries with an initial setting for printing ("Diary of a Writer" by F.M. Dostoevsky), they became a genre of journalism, served as a form frank conversation with a reader, a contemporary, then in the 20th century the situation is closer to the dominance of the second - "public" diaries. Writers understand that their intimate notes will be published. At this stage, diary entries are not so much a form of intimate communication with oneself, but rather a form of self-survival, preserving oneself in the conditions of a depersonalizing mass era, and therefore are characterized by frankness and publicism. For example, M.M. Prishvin kept the "Diaries" throughout his life (1905 - 1954) and considered them the most important in his legacy. They capture a whole era of the life of the country. But it should be noted that the published diary of the writer violates the boundaries of the genre.

Thus, the totalitarian era, strict censorship leaves a mark even on such an intimate, sweaty phenomenon in the culture of our society as personal records. The diary acts as an important document that can convey a subjective view to future descendants, refer to them (for example, “Notes on Anna Akhmatova” by L.K. Chukovskaya, “60s - 70s ... Notes on unofficial life in Moscow” by I. Kabakov other).

The diaries of writers who went through the war deserve special attention (for example, the diary of K. Simonov “Different days of the war. A writer's diary”). The war becomes one of the iconic phenomena of that time.

Attention to experiences of an abstract philosophical nature undergoes changes in the direction of understanding real, existential, universal human difficulties, hardships, trials. The events of the war and the post-war years become the background against which reflections unfold on the theme of the difficulties of life, loneliness, disappointment, the desire to survive, the justification of what is happening. The authors of the diaries often called themselves "witnesses of the era", and this is not accidental, because only the direct participants in the war could describe the war so piercingly, reliably, in detail. N.B. The Bank, considering the diaries and notebooks of Soviet writers, singles out “military and village diaries”35 into separate groups, thereby emphasizing the specificity of the diaries of this period. One of their differences is the transfer of the atmosphere of the war, the post-war years, a bold and daring look at human fates, souls, hearts. So, gradually, the diary from a fact of personal life develops in many respects into a public spiritual phenomenon, acquiring the features of a mass socio-cultural era.

The diary in the XXI century is also in demand. But its functions and purpose have qualitatively changed. One possible reason for this is that society wants to know how famous people differ from ordinary, ordinary people, how they achieved success; the other is to get acquainted with the life of that “idol”, whose work is familiar and interesting; the third is to live someone else's life, hide from loneliness, to feel that there are other people with similar thoughts, experiences, feelings, emotions, states.

sociocultural space, a sign characteristic of the elements of this space at different historical stages of its existence.

In other words, the diary is an important reflection of the era. A person, trying to look deeper into himself, to understand his inner world, is looking for new means of self-expression. One of them was a diary that appeared in real life and was organically perceived by literature, which borrows a diary fragment as part of a work of art. Russian literature gradually absorbed these Western European traditions, transferring them to domestic soil, and here the diary in the structure of a work of art acquired its unique features - contemplation, confession, intimacy, self-criticism. These Bank N.B. Thread of time: Diaries and notebooks of Soviet writers. L., 1978. S. 27.

features led to a rather wide distribution of diary entries of literary heroes, who appeared before readers from qualitatively new sides - more than ever sincere, open, and therefore understandable and close. As a result, Russian literature has become in many ways more penetrating and expressive, with notes of subtle psychologism and close attention to the details. The diary in the structure of a literary text determined an unprecedented spiritual closeness between the reader and the hero, and through him the reader and the writer. That is why this technique was used in their now widely known works by many famous writers.

1.2. Diary and "diary fragment". "Diary fragment" - the boundaries of the concept (theoretical aspect) A diary is not only a daily record of events occurring in life or a stream of spiritual outpourings on paper, it is a very complex and multifaceted phenomenon that requires a thorough comprehensive analysis and careful approach.

The mass distribution of diaries in culture and literary creativity led to the emergence in modern science of such concepts as "diary" and "diary", which indicates a natural increase in the interest of a number of researchers in the diary as a cultural phenomenon.

Consider two meanings of the word "diary". One of them can be interpreted as a “diary to keep” - to make regular entries in a specially designated notebook that reflect daily events, current affairs, thoughts and experiences of the author, his spiritual and mental condition, moral position, worldview, cultural and educational level 36. The second is “to know the diary”, that is, to know the features of keeping a Hermit V. The culture of diary keeping. To the definition of the concept "Real The Diary» // diary, to consciously imagine the purpose and objectives of this lesson, the place and significance that the diary should acquire in the author’s personal life, to have information about the classic examples of diary keeping. If the first is quite exhaustively interpreted by the explanatory dictionary of the Russian language, then the second is a vast topic for study and creative search37.

In addition, the study of diaries continues within the framework of the study of ego-literature, and the diary is called "ego-text" or "pre-text"38.

Ego-literature (“ego” in Latin “I”) is literature; issues related to the understanding of the documentary principle in artistic creativity are considered. Domestic philologists are trying to define such concepts as "documentary fiction", "ego-document", "literature of fact", "auto-documentary text". Most of them do not have an unambiguous definition and stable status. In this regard, there are discrepancies in the field of genre designations (diary, memoirs, notes).

psychological concept, as the "egocentrism" of nature. It is in direct connection not only with the study of the inner world of a person, but also with diary keeping. As the well-known Russian philologist wrote, D.N. Ovsyaniko-Kulikovsky, egocentrism “comes down, first of all, to the constant, lingering and too distinct feeling of the subject of his “I”: it is difficult for people of this way of being distracted from this feeling, it is difficult, http://www.dnevnikovedenie.ru/index.php?option= com_content&view=article&id=67:-qq&catid=38:2012-11-29-05-27-19&Itemid=66.

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sometimes it is impossible to forget, at least for a while, about their "I", which they are unable to dissolve in an impression, in an idea, in a feeling, in passions. From our point of view, it is egocentric natures that are most inherent in keeping a diary, personal records addressed to oneself.

In addition, “a characteristic feature of egocentric natures is the tendency to oppose oneself to everything else. Their social well-being is expressed voluntarily or involuntarily, in antitheses: “I and society”, “I and the fatherland”, “I and mankind”40... We see such opposition on the pages of the diary of Pechorin, Ammalat-bek, Arkady and other heroes.

In dictionaries, monographs, articles, we find some of the most significant definitions of the term "diary". Consider various approaches to the interpretation of the concept of "diary" and try to define the boundaries and scope this concept, his specific features, selection criteria.

Based on the intuition of native speakers of the Russian language, M.Yu. Mikheev defines a diary as "any text in which entries are separated from each other - most often by temporary dates"41.

As follows from this formulation, dating is not a significant structure-forming feature of the diary, its fundamentally important feature is discontinuity, fragmentation, “discontinuity”

ongoing records. But then it is not clear how to distinguish between "notes", "notes" and the diary itself. That is why in definitions, as a rule, special emphasis is placed on the presence of dating. So, according to the definition of A.N. Nikolyukin is a “periodically updated text, consisting of fragments with a specified date for each entry” 42. Moreover, Ovsyaniko-Kulikovskiy D.N. From the book “M.Yu. Lermontov // M.Yu.

Lermontov:pro et contra. SPb., 2002. S. 461.

Mikheev M.Yu. Diary in Russia of the 19th - 20th centuries - ego-text, or pre-text // http://www.lib.ru/PLATONOW/miheev_platonov.txt.

“the correspondence between the record itself and its date is rather arbitrary: the date and sequence of the records are sometimes irrelevant”43.

A.N. Nikolyukin also highlights a number of features that can be implemented to a greater or lesser extent in each diary:

1) frequency, regularity of keeping records;

2) the connection of the records with current rather than long-past events and 3) the spontaneous nature of the records (the time between the events and the record was too short, the consequences have not yet manifested themselves, and the author is not able to assess the degree of significance of what happened;

4) literary rawness of records;

5) unaddressed or indefinite addressee of many diaries;

6) intimate and therefore sincere, private and honest nature As a synonym for "diary" in the 19th century, the old name, borrowed from French, was used - the magazine. In the 19th century it was even more common. This is exactly how V.I.Dal interprets the meaning of the word: “A diary is a daily note, a journal, in all meanings”45. In this case, the definition of the word "diary" by the author dates through the word interchangeability of these concepts.

“Journal - m., frnts, diary, day note. Journal of meetings, deanik; travel, road, travel guide. Time-based publication, weekly, monthly, published according to the established deadlines; conscript" 46.

Based on the etymology of the French word, "journal" is a daily entry.

Nikolyukin A.N. Literary encyclopedia of terms and concepts. M., 2001. S.

Dal V.I. Explanatory dictionary of the living Great Russian language. Ed. Prof. I.A.

Baudouin de Courtenay. In four volumes. T.1, A-Z. M., 1998. S. 1094.

In Pushkin's dictionary, the word diary is absent altogether - there is only the word "journal", with a fairly high frequency (285), including some obsolete uses, for example, with the control of what (a siege journal kept in the governor's office ...)47.

In modern Russian, the meanings of these words are distributed as follows: a diary is a personal record kept day after day; journal (from French journal, originally "diary") - a printed periodical.

In the etymological dictionary of the Russian language by M. Fasmer, we find the following interpretation of the words of interest to us:

“The diary is a tracing paper of the French. journal from narodnolat. diurnale: diurnum (commentariolum), which goes back to the Greek. "daytime" 48.

The magazine is from the French journal from Middle Lat. diurnalis, diurnale "daily news, message"49.

In other words, in these definitions of Vasmer we see once again that the key feature of the meaning of the words "diary" and "magazine" is the daily nature of the entries. In essence, these concepts are related and describe one cultural phenomenon, which today is commonly called a "diary".

M.Yu. Mikheev in the book “Diary in Russia of the 19th – 20th centuries – ego-text, or pre-text” gives a detailed commentary on the etymology of the word “journal”, where one of the parameters of the definition is again the daily nature of the entries: “In French, the word “journal” appeared as an adjective (with the variant journau) and existed since the 12th century; in dialects, it could mean a measure of agricultural output - what can be done in a day. In the modern sense, le journal - 1) a newspaper (since 1631: Gazette de France), formed as an ellipsis from a papier journal - then Mikheev M.Yu. Diary in Russia of the 19th - 20th centuries - ego-text, or pre-text // http://www.lib.ru/PLATONOW/miheev_platonov.txt.

Fasmer M. Etymological dictionary of the Russian language. In four volumes. T1. SPb, 1996. S. 518.

there is literally "day paper, paper for this day"; 2) diary, journal.

(The French jour “day” itself comes from the Latin diurnum “daytime”.) In Latin, diarium meant 1) daily portion, ration, pack (mainly for Roman soldiers and slaves); 2) daily wages, daily wages; 3) daily entry, diary”50.

Thus, based on the above definitions, one of the traditional criteria for selecting diary entries (they are called "diary" or "magazine" - for the literature of the 19th century this is an insignificant difference) is the daily character and dating. It should be noted that in the works we are considering, which contain diary entries of a literary hero, these signs of a diary are of a formal nature, and therefore, both in life and in works of art, they are not always observed, and sometimes only partially, therefore the term "diary" is used in some cases with a fair degree of conventionality. So, for example, Pechorin's journal, Savely Tuberozov's "Demicotonic Book" and the notes of one young man from A.I. Herzen can literally be called diaries, that is, diaries in form: in addition to the traditional dating (only the notes of a young man in the Notes)

A.I. Herzen are dated differently - “in a week”, “in a month”) and the main features of the diary (periodicity, regularity of keeping records; connection of records with current, and not with long-past events and moods; spontaneous nature of the records (the time between events and the record has passed too little, the consequences have not yet manifested themselves, and the author is not able to assess the degree of significance of what happened);

literary rawness of records; unaddressed or indeterminate addressee of many diaries; intimate and therefore Mikheev M.Yew. Diary in Russia of the 19th - 20th centuries - ego-text, or pre-text // http://www.lib.ru/PLATONOW/miheev_platonov.txt.

an essential feature is the method of registration of records (notebook, book).

Unlike the works of Lermontov, Leskov and Herzen mentioned above, the records of the heroes presented in the works of A.A. BestuzhevMarlinsky "Ammalat-bek" and A.N. Polevoy's "Painter" can be classified as a diary only in terms of some essential, and not formal, indicators - these are diaries in essence. “Excerpts from notes” by Ammalat-bek and Arkady's notes are not placed in a notebook or book. The author did not consider it necessary to do so. Apparently, there were reasons for this, as it seems to us, largely related to the types of heroes endowed with the ability to keep diary entries. Arkady is a creative person who does not consider it necessary to properly formalize and bring together his notes, and Ammalat-bek, a highlander hero who sincerely strives to comprehend the foundations of high spiritual culture, is just beginning to join it, overcoming the obstacles caused by his natural roots. Hence the inconsistency, unformedness of his diary - a reflection of the "inconsistency", the unformedness of his spiritual world, which had just begun to acquire civilized, cultivated features. Ammalatbek's notes in chapter VI are not dated, but they contextually, intuitively in meaning, trace the daily character. So the only record of the XI chapter is designated as “midnight” - this already allows us to talk about dating, only not the traditional formal one (day, month, year), but literary - the one that the author himself chooses, therefore, we can classify the records as diary.

Arkady's notes in A.N. Polevoy’s “The Painter” are not dated in principle, but they clearly express the daily character (“Why did I go to them today”; “I’ve been sitting for three days, shutting myself up in my room”52, etc.), Nikolyukin A.N. Literary encyclopedia of terms and concepts. M., 2001. S.

Polevoy N.A. Dreams and life. M., 1988. S. 93, 98. (Further references to this edition in the text of the work in square brackets: page number).

periodicity, regularity, etc., as well as each entry is separated from each other by a note that makes it possible to conclude that they belong to the diaries.

works of art allows us to conclude that dating is not always a mandatory feature of the text, which, in fact, is a diary and is conceived by the author as a diary.

It is important to point out that the literary rawness of the characters' notes is characteristic of each of the diary fragments we are considering.

So, for example, Tuberozov, the hero of the chronicle N.S. Leskov’s “Soboryane”, on the pages of the “Demicotone Book” notes: “I won’t remove this stain, I won’t correct any awkwardness and identity that I notice in the last lines: let everything remain so, for everything that this minute is abundant for me , is dear to me in its present form and should remain as such”53.

We find similar thoughts in the notes of Arkady, the hero of N.A.

Field "Painter": "Forgive the mess, the awkwardness ...". In "Notes" A.I. Herzen, a young man writes before the "Patriarchal Morals of the City of Malinov": "No matter how much I thought, I did not figure out in what order to put curious passages from my journal, and I place it in the form in which it was written." The protagonist of the novel M.Yu. Lermontova Pechorin also speaks of the need to leave everything that has already been written down in the diary: “Rereading this page, I notice that I have digressed far from my subject ... But what is the need? whatever I throw into it will in time be a precious memory for me. In the story of A.A. Bestuzhev Marlinsky "Ammalat-bek" the hero of the same name keeps his records like Leskov N.S. Collected works: In 11 volumes - M., 1957. V. 4. S. 39. (Further references to this edition in the text of the work in square brackets: 1 - volume; 2 - page).

Herzen A.I. Works in 8 vols.

previous, but here is a description of this process gives himself

in this study is the name of the presented fragment by the author: “diary”, “journal”, “notes”, “notes”, “notes”, “calendar”, etc. All of the above words act as synonyms. Recording data may be different character: fixation of events, reflections, reproduction of the situation as taking place in the present or analytical reconstruction. A diary in the structure of a work of art differs, for example, from a documentary diary, primarily in that in the first case, the author himself is free to determine its “diary” nature, regardless of formal features - dating, daily character, etc. In other words, diary entries included in a literary text are a special kind of diary, the study of which should be approached, taking into account its specificity and internal originality.

In addition, when studying the diaries of heroes in the structure of the work, their volume is important. What part of the notes should appear before the reader and to whom they were entrusted (handed over) depends, by definition, only on the author. A significant criterion for a diary, in our opinion, is the genre of a work of art, which includes diary entries: a story, a novel, a chronicle, notes (we consider “Notes of a Young Man” as a work that combines different genre features; these are notes, about chm was repeatedly said by the author himself, and we do not classify them as a story, essay, autobiography, etc.)56.

The works we are considering in this study belong to one of these genres.

Bestuzhev-Marlinsky A.A. Tales. M., 1986. S. 328. (Further references to this edition in the text of the work in square brackets: page).

Novich I.S. Young Herzen: pages of life and creativity. M., 1986. S. 236.

The novel and the chronicle are large epic genres, while the story and notes are medium. In the novel by M.Yu. Lermontov "A Hero of Our Time" and the chronicle of N.S. Leskov's "Cathedrals" diary entries occupy a significant place in terms of volume, respectively, and the scope of the topics described in them becomes much wider - from love experiences to philosophical reflections, reflections on history, religion, etc. Records in them are of different times, long in time of reference. This is especially noticeable in the chronicle of N.S. Leskov. In the stories of A.A. Bestuzhev-Marlinsky "Ammalat-bek", N.A. Field "The Painter" and "Notes of a Young Man"

A.I. Herzen's records are presented in a relatively small volume - a few pages. If we talk about the main (dominant) themes that rise on the pages of the diary entries of these works, then they boil down to the following: Bestuzhev-Marlinsky has the theme of love, Polevoi has the theme of love and art, Herzen has the theme of the city of Malinov - the prototype of Russia of that time, the presence of a young man in it - the protagonist of the Notes.

So, for example, in the "Hero of Our Time" M.Yu. Lermontov’s “Pechorin’s Journal” goes to the hero-narrator, an inquisitive wandering traveler (officer), who will print only excerpts (what refers to Pechorin’s stay in the Caucasus) posthumously, leaving a thick notebook with him, promising someday her present to the reader.

In the story of A.A. Bestuzhev-Marlinsky “Ammalat-bek”, the author places excerpts from the notes of the highlander Ammalat-bek in the sixth and eleventh chapters, prefaced by Verkhovsky’s letter to his bride with reflections on Ammalat and the desire to reveal the complex nature of his feelings for Seltanet.

In "Notes of a young man" A.I. Herzen's diary entries of the hero entitled "Patriarchal manners of the city of Malinov"

(also excerpts, since it is indicated that some of the sheets of them are lost) are published on behalf of a certain one who found the first and second notebooks.

In general, in this sense, “Notes of a Young Man” and “A Hero of Our Time” are similar in structure, a certain natural triad, a scheme is built up: a hero-narrator - prefaces - published notes.

In "The Painter" N.A. Arkady's field notes are preceded by the words of the author and a short introduction on behalf of the hero himself with a request to forgive him for the mess and inconsistency in his notes.

In the chronicle of N.S. Leskov's "Soboryane" "The Demikotone Book of Archpriest Tuberozov" appears before the reader and ends with the words of the author, which gradually and carefully first lead us to the secret, sincere, personal, and then delicately "close" the entries in Savely Tuberozov's diary. The archpriest's diary is included in the text, from the very first page to the last. That is, unlike other works analyzed by us, from the point of view of the integrity of the presented diary entries, the "Demikotone Book" is presented almost completely. The only exception is the page covered in ink: “Here in Father Saveliy’s diary, almost the entire page was filled with ink…” . Also here should be included those moments where the author gives comments indicating the number of entries or pages that the archpriest missed when rereading: “The archpriest skipped a few notes and stopped again at the next one ...”; "Below, after a few entries, it was ...". That is, the hero's notes are being created (continued) before our eyes, and the reader sees the direct, living process of the birth of the diary.

Thus, we see that the integrity, the sequence of perception of not only the personal experiences of the characters, but also the entire work as a whole, largely depends on the volume of the hero's records presented.

This is determined primarily by the attitudes and goals that the author set for himself, including diary entries in his work, and, of course, the genre of the work in which the diary of a particular hero is included.

Also important, from our point of view, is the need of the hero - the author of diary entries for an addressee - real or supposed, despite the fact that the original feature of the diary is its addresslessness, or in other words, the addressee is the writer himself, because by definition the diary is kept exclusively for himself: "... the author of the diary does not need an interlocutor, the diary narrative has a centripetal direction, the focus of which is the personality of the writer"57.

the opportunity for a woman to read his notes, “the situation is played out of an “accidental” acquaintance of an imaginary reader with the secret revelations of the hero”58: “What if someday these notes fall into the eyes of a woman?”

This assumption of Pechorin is perceived only as a game, which is characteristic of his fickle nature. Such a conclusion allows us to come to the fact that until this moment we saw a fundamentally different attitude of the hero regarding what was written in the diary: “After all, I am writing this journal for myself ...”. Thus, the addressee in Pechorin’s diary is somehow present initially - it is himself, and then a “probable” lady is added to it, on the perception of which, when reading his notes, he certainly begins to focus when writing them.

Hero A.A. Bestuzhev-Marlinsky Ammalat-bek has similar thoughts. Ammalat-bey, anticipating future events, figuratively represents the following situation: “Here is the chronicle of my heart…” I will tell her. - Look here: on such and such a day I thought about you, on such and such a night I was Logunova N.V. Russian epistolary prose of the 20th – 21st centuries: the evolution of genre and artistic discourse: Abstract of the thesis. … dis. dr. philol. Sciences. M., 2011. S. 14.

Afanas'eva E.M. The Image of the Reader and the Phenomenon of Reading in M.Yu. Lermontov’s Novel “A Hero of Our Time” // Proceedings of the Ural State University.

2006. No. 41. P. 38.

that's how I saw you in a dream! By these sheets, as by a diamond rosary, you can count my sighs, my tears for you. Oh dear, dear! You smile more than once at my bizarre dreams; they will give food for a long time to our conversations! .. ". The dreams of a highlander hero are quite understandable, he longs for only one thing - to be with Seltaneta, and keeping records in which he writes about his feelings is, from his point of view, a confirmation of true love. Reading these records, Seltanet, from his point of view, would not doubt the sincerity of Ammalat-bek. Based on this, one can come to the conclusion that the main addressee of Ammalat-bek's diary is precisely the lady of his heart, and not himself. He is driven not so much by "civilized"

the desire to understand oneself and one's feelings, how much an instinctive desire to prove one's love to Seltanet. With the straightforwardness inherent in the highlander, he, without playing, like Pechorin, stubbornly bends his line, openly addresses his main reader in his diary.

A slightly different solution is given to the topic of the presence of an addressee in the diary “Patriarchal customs of the city of Malinov” by a young man, the hero of A.I. Herzen. The setting for the possible reading of something written by someone is constantly traced in the notes: “In order to acquaint even more with the life of the Malinovites, I will describe a typical day from 8 am to 3 am”; "Dinner I described"; “Here is one human meeting in Malinovo, and very strange, moreover.” In this case, the external addressee is also present in the young man's diary from the very beginning; moreover, the diary is written more for this probable addressee (as can be seen from the above quotes) than for the hero himself, the author of the diary.

Speaking of Archpriest Tuberozov, the main character in N.S.

Leskov's "Cathedrals", regarding the alleged or real addressee in the diary entries, it should be noted that this observation is inappropriate to consider in relation to the image of this character.

Tuberozov is a clergyman, for him keeping a diary is first of all a confession to himself, a sacred act. Therefore, the presence or at least the assumption of a possible addressee, someone who could still touch the records of the archpriest is simply unthinkable and can be regarded as disrespect for this image. Thus, the diary of the archpriest has only one addressee, but the most reverent, careful and impassive one is himself. This circumstance distinguishes his notes from the diaries of other literary heroes we have examined, representing a certain specificity of this work, largely due to the origin and social affiliation of its main character.

The identified features can be implemented to a greater or lesser extent in each diary. Everything that is fixed on paper by the author of the diary, namely: mental and sensory operations, facts - is of a sudden, disordered nature, sometimes does not even have causal relationships (later we can see this on specific fragmentation, randomness, spontaneity, incompleteness, and also increased emotionality (here we mean the type of addressee - "I", "other" - a friend, society, the world as a whole - the universe; the use of rhetorical questions in speech, all kinds of appeals, including to the diary itself).

An important place in the process of studying the diary phenomenon in culture and literature is occupied by the question of the functions that the diary performs.

One of the most detailed ideas about this issue we find in the studies of M.Yu. Mikheev. He highlights following features diary:

“Firstly, the function of cultural memory, that is, the diary as a mechanism for preserving traces of the events of an individual life”59. This function is partly performed by diaries in the structure of a literary text, which also record certain moments and changes in the life of their author.

The second function of the diary, according to Mikheev, is the function of a testament, connected “with an appeal to a certain “understanding” reader: “let them read it after my death.” With a similar function of the diary, we meet in works of art. For example, in Lermontov's novel "A Hero of Our Time", Pechorin, on the pages of his diary, subconsciously refers to a woman who in the future will be able to voluntarily or involuntarily read these lines, which is why the motive Mikheev M.Yu. appears in them. Diary in Russia of the 19th - 20th centuries - ego-text, or pre-text // http://www.lib.ru/PLATONOW/miheev_platonov.txt.

secret testament: “What if someday these notes fall into the eyes of a woman? "Slander!" she screams indignantly)