Features of narrative technique in Mrs. Dalloway's novel. Romance without mystery

Features The focus is on "ordinary consciousness during an ordinary day", which is "a myriad of impressions - simple, fantastic, fleeting, captured with the sharpness of steel" (quoting Wolfe's keynote essay "Modern Fiction") The whole novel is a "stream of consciousness ” Mrs. Dalloway and Smith, their feelings and memories, broken into certain segments by the blows of Big Ben. This is a conversation of the soul with itself, a living flow of thoughts and feelings · The main and, perhaps, the only hero of these works is the stream of consciousness. All other characters (carefully illuminated from the inside, but at the same time devoid of plastic tangibility and speech originality) dissolve in it almost without a trace. Since the writer believed that a real “modern” novel should be “not a series of events, but the development of experiences”, in “Mrs. Dalloway” the action is reduced to zero, and time, accordingly, barely weaves, as if in a falcon-like film, entirely consisting of static plans and slow motion shots. · Virginia Woolf writes about “Mrs. Dalloway”: “I took up this book, hoping that I could express my attitude to creativity in it ... One must write from the very depths of feeling - this is what Dostoevsky teaches. And I? Maybe I, who love words so much, only play with them? No I do not think so. I have too many tasks in this book - I want to describe life and death, health and insanity, I want to critically depict the existing social system, to show it in action. And yet am I writing from the depths of my feelings? .. Will I be able to convey reality? In the process of writing the novel "Mrs. Dalloway" the writer characterizes her artistic method as a "tunneling process" ("tunnelling process"), with the help of which she could, as necessary, insert whole pieces related to the past of the characters, and this way of depicting the memories of the characters became central to the studies of "states of consciousness" that continued her artistic quest. Virginia Woolf creates eight short stories (to do this, the author combines four types of such a flow: external description, indirect internal monologue, direct internal monologue, self-talk). · There are two opposite personality types in the novel: the extroverted Septimus Smith leads to the alienation of the hero from himself. The introverted Clarissa Dalloway is characterized by a fixation of interests on the phenomena of her own inner world, a tendency to introspection. For Woolf, the "room" is also the ideal of a woman's personal solitude (privacy), her independence. For the heroine, despite the fact that she is a married woman and mother, “room” is a synonym for preserving her virginity, purity - Clarissa means “clean” in translation. Bodily independence runs throughout her married life, and her title of "Mrs. Dalloway" is a figurative "box" that contains Clarissa's personal identity. This title, this name is also a shell, a kind of protective container in the face of the people around it. The choice of the title of the novel reveals the central idea and theme. Flowers are a deep metaphor for the work. Much of it is expressed through the image of flowers. Flowers are both a sphere of tangible communication and a source of information. The young woman Peter meets on the street is wearing a floral dress with real flowers attached to it. She was crossing Trafalgar Square with a red carnation burning in her eyes and making her lips red. What was Peter thinking? Here is his inner monologue: “These floral details indicate that she is unmarried; she is not tempted, like Clarissa, by the blessings of life; although she is not rich like Clarissa.” Gardens are also a metaphor. They are the result of the hybridization of two motifs - a fenced-off garden and the chastity of a natural-spatial territory. Thus, the garden is a garden of strife. By the end of the novel, the two gardens represent the two central female character- Clarissa and Sally. Both have gardens to match their own. Flowers are a kind of status for the characters in the novel. In Borton's garden, where Clarissa and Peter are having an explanation near his fountain, Clarissa sees Sally plucking flower heads. Clarissa thinks she's wicked if she treats flowers like that. · For Clarissa, flowers are a psychological cleansing and upliftment. She tries to find harmony between colors and people. This stubborn relationship of the main character with flowers, gaining symbolic and psychological depth, develops in the novel into a leitmotif, into an ideological and emotional tone. This is a moment of constant characterization of actors, experiences and situations. · ...Meanwhile, Clarissa returns home with flowers. It's time for the reception. And again - a string of small, scattered sketches. In the midst of the reception, Sir William Bradshaw arrives with his wife, a fashionable psychiatrist. He explains the reason for the couple's delay by saying that one of his patients, a war veteran, had just committed suicide. Clarissa, hearing the explanation of the guest's lateness, suddenly begins to feel like a desperate veteran, although she never knew him. Extrapolating the suicide of a loser to her fate, she at some point realizes that her life has also collapsed.
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Introduction to the thesis (part of the abstract) on the topic ""Mrs. Dalloway" W. Wolfe: the structure of the narrative"

Modernist", "experimental", "psychological" - these are the definitions artistic method V. Wolfe, an English writer whose work throughout the 20th century has been in the center of attention of both foreign and domestic literary criticism.

The degree of study of the creative heritage of V. Wolf in foreign literary criticism can be evidenced by a number of scientific and critical works. It seems possible to single out several areas: the study of the aesthetic views of the writer1, her critical and social activities, the analysis of the artistic specificity of individual works and the creative laboratory as a whole3.

A special and, perhaps, the most significant and fruitful direction is the study of the philosophical and artistic concept of space and time in the works of V. Wolf. Let us dwell on this problem in more detail, since it is closely related to the question of the origins of creative method writers.

Thus, M. Chech, a researcher of V. Wolfe's work, notes that the writer's concept of time was largely influenced by the works of De Quincey, L. Stern and the works of Roger Fry4. On De Quincey's Suspiria

1 Fullbrook K. Free Women: Ethics and Aesthetics in Twentieth-century Women's Fiction. L "1990. P. 81-112.

2 Takei da Silva N. Virginia Woolf the Critic // Takei da Silva N. Modernism and Virginia Woolf. windsor. England, 1990. P. 163-194.

O.Love Jean. Worlds in Consciousness: Mythopoetic Thought in the Novels of Virginia Woolf. L.A., L., 1970.

4 Church M. Time and Reality: Studies in Contemporary Fiction. Chapel Hill. The University of North Carolina Press. 1963. P. 70. de Profundis” in the article “Impressioned prose” (“Impressioned prose”, 1926) was written by V. Woolf herself. She noted that in this author there are descriptions of such states of human consciousness, when time is strangely prolonged, and space is expanding1. De Quincey's influence on l.

Woolf also considers H. Meyerhof significant. He cites the confession of De Quincey himself, who, analyzing the state of drug intoxication, noted that the sense of space, and then the sense of time, changed dramatically3. So, it sometimes seemed to him that he had lived a hundred years in the course of one night, since the feeling of the duration of what was happening went beyond any reasonable framework of human understanding. This remark by De Quincey coincides, according to H. Meyerhof, with the amazing effect of stretching and saturation of time in W. Wolfe's novels, especially in Mrs. Dalloway. So only one day is able to embrace the whole life, as a result of which, the scientist believes, it can be argued that a time perspective is being introduced, which is strikingly different from any metric order.

Turning to the influence of L. Stern, it should be noted that the aesthetic principles expressed in his works are in many respects similar to the concept of time, based on a continuous stream of images and thoughts in the human mind4. In addition, W. Wolfe, like Stern, did not trust factual knowledge, using them only as an auxiliary

1 Woolf V. Granite and Rainbow. London. 1958. P. 39.

Meyerhoff H. Time in Literature. University of California Press. Berkeley. L. A., 1955. P. 25,

3 Stated no: Madelaine B. Stern. Counterclockwise: Flux of Time in Literature // The Sewance Review. XL1V. 1936. P. 347.

4 Church M. Op. cit. P. 70. means for further perception of reality is already at the level of imagination1.

Mentioning the influence of her friend, the post-impressionist Roger Fry, on the writer, one can, in particular, refer to the work of John Hafley Roberts "Vision and Desing in Virginia Woolf", in which the researcher notices that V. Woolf also tried to "photograph the wind" . Here she followed Fry's belief that real artists should not create pale reflections of reality, but strive to convince others that there is a new and completely different reality.

In addition, researchers of V. Wolf's work often notice that the opposition of internal time to real time in her novels correlates with Anri Bergson's theory of "la duree", or psychological time. Thus, Floris Delattre argues that the concept of duration, with which Bergson tried to explain the foundations of the human personality in its entirety and integrity, is the center of the novels of Virginia Woolf. Being entirely in “real duration” (“real duration”), the writer connects psychological experiences with an element of constant qualitative and creative duration, which is actually human consciousness. According to Shiv K.Kamer, the action in the works of V.Wulf lies solely in a continuous stream of emotional moments, when the duration, being the past

1 Hafley J. The Glass Roof. Berkley and Los Angeles. California. 1954. P. 99.

1 Roberts J.H. Vision and Design in Virginia Woolf. PMLA. LXI. September. 1946. P. 835.

3 Delattrc F. La durcc Bergsonicne dans le roman dc Virginia Woolf // Virginia Woolf. The Critical Heritage. Paris. 1932. P. 299-300. in motion, constantly enriched by the newly born present.

In Henri Bergson's theory of “la duree”, the traditional chronological perception of time is opposed to internal duration (“inner duration”) as the only true criterion on the path to the knowledge of aesthetic experience and experience.

Therefore, time in the works of modernist writers is almost always interpreted as a kind of fourth dimension. Time in the new creative understanding becomes an immeasurable entity and only symbolically personified and denoted by such concepts as hours, days, months, or years, which are only its spatial definitions. It should be emphasized that time, having ceased to signify an expanded image of space, becomes the very essence of reality, which Bergson calls a sequence of qualitative changes that penetrate and dissolve into each other, do not have clear outlines and are “becoming”2.

The Time of Consciousness” is symbolically presented to many novelists of this era as a flowing river of memories and images. This endless stream of human experiences consists of elements of memory, desire, aspiration, paradox, and anticipation continuously mixing with each other, as a result of which a person exists as if “in a mixed time, in the grammatical structure of which there are only pure, unalloyed tenses, created, it would seem, only for animals"3.

2 Bergson H. Mater and Memory / Trans, by N.M. Paul and W.S. Palmer. L., 1913. P. 220.

3 Svevo H. The nice old man etc. L., 1930. P. 152. 6

The basis of the theory of psychological time is the concept of constant movement and variability. In this understanding, the present loses its static essence and continuously flows from the past into the future, merging with them. William James calls this phenomenon the "specious present"1, while Gertrude Stein calls it the "prolonged present".

According to Bergson, nothing but our own soul flows through time - this is our “I”, which continues, and the reason why experience and feeling are a continuous and endless stream of mixed past and present lies in the laws of associative perception of the world3 .

However, in later studies4 scientists come to the conclusion that Virginia Woolf never read Bergson and could not have been influenced by his philosophical teachings. On the other hand, the works of the writer confirm the existence of a certain parallelism between the technique of the novels of the "stream of consciousness" and the "perpetual motion" of Henri Bergson. As for the “Bergsonian” mood in Mrs. Dallow-hey, it most likely arose after the author had read the works of Marcel Proust. In Proust, in one of his letters to a friend, Antoine Bibesco, we find an interesting remark that, just as there is planimetry and the geometry of space, so the novel is not only planimetry, but psychology embodied in time and space. Moreover, time, this "invisible and elusive substance", Proust persistently tries to

1 James W. The Principles of Psychology. Vol. I. L., 1907. P. 602.

Stein G. Composition as Explanation. London. 1926. P. 17.

J Bergson H. An Introduction to Metaphysics / Trans, by T.E. hulme. L., 1913. P. 8.

4 See, in particular, Lee H. The Novels of Virginia Woolf. L., 1977. P. 111. The fact that the understanding of time by W. Wolfe is largely connected with the name of Marcel Proust and his concept of the past is also mentioned by Floris Delattre2, referring to the entry in the diary of W. Wolfe herself, in which she admits that she wants to “dig out beautiful caves "behind the shoulders of their heroes, caves that "would connect with each other and come to the surface, to the light, precisely at the present, current moment in time" "*. And this, as the researcher believes, is close to the Proustian understanding of memory and human immersion in everything they have experienced before.

In addition to the above-mentioned iconic figures of the turn of the century, James Joyce had a significant influence on the works of W. Wolfe (and especially on the novel "Mrs. Dalloway").

Thus, William York Tyndell claims that in "Mrs. Dalloway" W. Wolfe takes the structure of "Ulysses"5 as a model, while H.-J. images are different. In Joyce, according to the researcher, everything is an endless stream, while in Wolfe the soul is that which is spatial. Ruth Gruber, in turn, believes that in both Mrs. Dalloway and Ulysses, the Aristotelian unity of place, time, and action is revived. Solomon Fishman, on the other

1 Letters of Proust. L., 1950. P. 188.

2 Delattre F. Op. cit. P. 160.

3 Woolf V. A Writer's Diary. N. Y., 1954. P. 59.

4 Delattre F. Op. cit. P. 160. Tindall W.Y. Many-levelled Fiction: Virginia Woolf to Ross Lockridge // College English. X.November. 1948. P. 66.

6 Mayox H.-J. Le roman de l "espace et du temps Virginia Woolf. Revue Anglo-Americaine. VII. April. 1930. P. 320.

7 Gruber R. Virginia Woolf: a Study. Leipzig, 1935. P. 49. 8, states that Joyce and Wolfe are profoundly different from each other, since their inherent aesthetic values ​​in one are associated with the Thomistic tradition, which preached contemplation, and in the other - with Ra. I tsionalisticheskoi traditions of humanism.

Remarkable, in our opinion, is the common feature of the novels by Wolfe and Joyce, noted by Floris Delattre 2. The researcher points out that both writers are trying to connect the tiny, inconsistently created universe of one person (human time) with the huge universe of the city, symbolizing a mysterious whole, “ all" (universal Time). In both Woolf, as Floris Delattre suggests, and Joyce, this contrast between human time and city time has a double meaning.

The American literary scholar Hans Meyerhof, in a more detailed comparative analysis of "Ulysses" and "Mrs. Dalloway", notes that the day in both novels is only a plausible present ("specious present"), the chaotic variety of temporal connections within human consciousness is deliberately opposed to the relative simplicity of the objective, metrical and orderly time in nature. What is also common is that the streams of life in both Ulysses and Mrs. Dalloway are strung on a single symbolic frame, consisting of common memories and references, which is, moreover, the basis of the unity of the narrative4.

Such, in general terms, is the panorama of aspects of the study of V. Wolfe's work in foreign literary criticism. A slightly different picture

1 Fishman S. Virginia Woolf of the Novel // Sewance Review. LI (1943). P. 339.

2 Delattre F. Op. cit. P. 39.

3 Meyerhofl H. Op. cit. P. 39.

4 Meyerhoff H. Op. cit. P. 39. lived in Russian Wolff studies, which tends to analyze the formal content component of the writer's works. At the same time, the judgments of contemporary critics1 about the artistic style of V. Wolf made it possible to form a certain mythological metatext, equally remote from both the aesthetic ideas of the writer and artistic structure her works. In the most general terms, the myth regarding the idiostyle of W. Wolfe looks like this: the writer’s books are devoid of a plot, they break up into separate sketches of the internal states of various persons, made in an impressionistic manner, due to the lack of a certain narrative intrigue that links the individual fragments of the work into a single whole; in Woolf's novels, there are no plots and denouements, as well as main and secondary actions, as a result, the whole action turns out to be inconsistent, devoid of logical causal determination; the smallest details, joyful or sad memories, arising on an associative basis, overlap each other, are fixed by the author and determine the content of the book. From the point of view of classical, traditional literary criticism, the created picture is beyond doubt, but at the same time it gives rise to an endless series of questions, the main of which is what is the essence of the experiment undertaken by V. Wolfe, and what are the narrative techniques that result in the above picture , - remains unanswered, because the above series of statements states the general trends in artistic

1 See: Zhantieva D.G. English novel of the 20th century. M., 1965.; Zhluktenko N.Yu. English psychological novel of the 20th century. Kyiv, 1988.; Nikolaevskaya A. Colors, taste, and tones of being // New World. 1985. No. 8.; Dneprov V. A novel without mystery // Literary review. 1985. No. 7.; Genieva E. The Truth of the Fact and the Truth of the Vision //Vulf V. Selected. M., 1989. thinking of the era of modernism. Thus, the main milestones in the study of the structure of the narrative by W. Wolfe have been outlined by domestic literary criticism, but in general the issue remains unresolved. In this regard, the problem of choosing the direction of research arises.

The first step in this process is the classical theory of mimesis. As N.T. Rymar notes, “the isolation and alienation of the individual, the collapse of conventional systems in the 20th century leads to a deep restructuring of the classical structure of the mimetic act - mimesis itself becomes problematic: the collapse of a generally significant “myth” and isolation, alienation of the individual from the collective deprive the artist of the language, in which he could speak with the recipient, and the subject associated with this language.

The process of freeing the artist from the “ready-made” material dates back to the Renaissance and the 17th century, and in the era of romanticism, the artist himself becomes the creator of new forms, a new myth and a new language. However, he expresses his personal experience in the language of culture - the language of genres, plots, motifs, symbols from the culture of the past and present. In the 20th century, in a situation of individual isolation, the diverse forms of cultural languages ​​can no longer be completely “one's own” for an individual, just like the world of culture as a whole, which appears before him as a stranger2. A classical work, as a rule, is included in the existing system of genres, continuing in its own way a certain series of works and dialogically correlating with this series, as well as enclosing it.

1 Rymar N.T. Recognition and understanding: the problem of mimesis and the structure of the image in the artistic culture of the XX century. // Vestnik Samar. GU. 1997. No. 3 (5). S. 30 et seq.

2 Adorno Th. Asthetische Theory. F/M. 1995. S. 36-56; Bttrger P. Prosa der Moderne. Unter Mitarbeit von Christa Burger. F/M. 1992; Burger P. Theorie der Avantgarde. F/M. 1974. S. 49-75; 76-116. structures and potential narrative possibilities. Therefore, in relation to literature of the classical type, it is legitimate to speak in terms of tradition and innovation.

In the 20th century, when the artist becomes an outsider, feels his alienation from language and culture, the work comes into conflict and lives in the event of this conflict with the language of culture. It is not complete in itself, not self-sufficient, because it does not have a language that would be its own. The life of such a work lies in its openness, intellectuality, appeal to other languages ​​and myths, in the event of an “attack”1 on existing forms of culture, on the consciousness of the reader. The works of J. Joyce, T.S. Eliot, W. Eco are filled with the energy of a kind of intellectual aggression, assuming a detailed commentary even on the atomic elements of the text as a resistor.

The works of V. Wolfe, which do not contain such a commentary, nevertheless experience an urgent need for it, because the language itself reveals immanent, potential possibilities of semantic dissipation (scattering of meanings), becoming flexible, plastic and polyvalent, on the one hand, and on the other hand, it concludes in itself a tendency to resist, conceal and withhold meaning. Thus, the problem of the strategy of reading and understanding the text, which is relevant only for the 20th century, arises, because the subject of artistic research is not the surrounding reality, but artifacts of the language and culture as a whole. The terms tradition and innovation reveal their insufficiency, since they fit the work into either an extended or too narrow context. For example, the works of F. Kafka fit into the paradigm of Ch.

1 Rymar N.T. Cit. slave. P. 32. Dernism is associated with the work of J. Joyce, A. Gide, V. Wolf, T. S. Eliot, S. Dali, A. Bely, V. Nabokov, D. Kharms, T. Mann, B. Brecht, Yu. O "Neela and others. Studies in the field of the intertextual nature of the work, popular in the second half of the 20th century, also reveal their insufficiency: the text may be closed for understanding and deciphering due to the resistance of the linguistic material (even within the native language!).

These circumstances largely predetermine our interest in the specifics of W. Wolfe's artistic thinking in general and in the study of the structure of narration in particular.

Theoretical basis present work compiled the works of M.M. Bakhtin, N.G. Pospelov, Yu.M. Lotman, V.V. Kozhinov and modern researchers - A.Z. list of used literature). The works of S.N. Filyushkina1, N.G. Vladimirova2, N.Ya.Dyakonova3, N.I.

The relevance of the study is due, on the one hand, a high degree study of V. Wolf's work, and on the other hand, the lack of a conceptual approach in the analysis of the structure of the narrative. Within the framework of the problem posed, it is relevant to consider

1 Filyushkina S.N. Modern English novel. Voronezh, 1988.

Vladimirova N.G. Forms of artistic convention in the literature of Great Britain of the 20th century. Novgorod, 1998.

3 Dyakonova N.Ya. Shakespeare and English Literature of the 20th Century // Questions of Literature. 1986. No. 10.

4 Bushmanova N.I. The Problem of Intertext in the Literature of English Modernism: Prose by D.H. Lawrence and W. Woolf. Abstract dis. Dr. Philol. Sciences. M., 1996.

13 of the communicative space in W. Wolfe's novel "Mrs. Dalloway", as well as the system of rhetorical devices that organize this text.

The subject of the study is the structure of the narrative in the novel by W. Wolfe "Mrs. Dalloway", which is considered by researchers as a programmatic, milestone work of the writer, marking the transition from the traditional manner of writing ("Journey", "Night and Day") to a qualitatively new artistic system (" To the lighthouse”, “Waves”, “Years”, “Between acts”). The paper considers three levels: macro- (novel whole), midi- (analysis of individual plot situations that construct real communicative space and communicative memory space) and micro-level (analysis of individual linguistic phenomena that contain the memory of culture, language and author's intention).

The purpose of the study is to identify the main structure-forming and text-generating elements, in the definitions of the main narrative strategy of V. Wolfe and the methods of its expression.

The purpose of the study involves the solution of the following tasks: identifying the constitutive features of the novel type of artistic consciousness, influencing the formation of a narrative strategy; revealing the ways of forming the structure of the narrative of classical and non-classical types of artistry; consideration of the mechanisms of constructing a real communicative space and memory space in the artistic world of the novel by V. Wolf; determination of the specifics of the subject-object organization of the narrative in the novel.

Research methods. The system-structural and structural-semantic methods in combination with elements of the synergetic approach are used as the main ones in the work. When studying the microstructure of the text, the method of linguistic observation and description with elements of cognitive-pragmatic analysis is used.

Scientific novelty lies in the study of the narrative structure of the novel "Mrs. Dalloway" by W. Wolfe using a complex, multi-level* translation of the original text; in the study of the structure of the communicative space and the system of rhetorical devices.

The scientific and practical significance of the work lies in expanding the understanding of the structure of the narrative, in analyzing the mechanisms for the formation of a communicative space, and also in the fact that its results can be used in a variety of ways in the process of developing general and special training courses on foreign literature of the 20th century in university teaching practice, in the management of research work of students, including writing term papers and theses. The materials and some provisions of the work can be used in further studies of the narrative structure of works of non-classical type of artistry.**

Approbation of work. According to the results of the study, reports were read at scientific and practical seminars of the Department of Foreign Literature of the Kaliningrad State University in 1996, 1997. On the topic of the dissertation, reports were read at international conferences of faculty, researchers, graduate students and students in Kaliningrad in April 1998, 1999, at the international conference "Actual problems of literature: a commentary on the XX century

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Dissertation conclusion on the topic "Literature of the peoples of foreign countries (with an indication of specific literature)", Yanovskaya, Galina Vladimirovna

CONCLUSION

As a result of the study, we came to the following conclusions.

1. The artistic consciousness of the classical type is characterized by genre thinking, which implies the continuity of genre knowledge acquired from generation to generation and the possibility of fixing them by means of language. The author and the reader are in a single semantic space: the choice of genre is the prerogative of the writer, while the reader agrees with the proposed model of the world image, and the work, in turn, is read through the prism of a clearly defined genre. The author of a classical narrative performs a function that organizes the novel as a whole: he establishes causal relationships, determines the composition of plot-compositional and extra-plot artistic means and techniques, sets the internal and external boundaries of the narrative.

The artistic consciousness of the 20th century is characterized by the destruction of genre thinking. The writer and the reader find themselves in different semantic spaces. The problem of “choosing a genre” and the strategy of interpreting a work passes to the plane of the reader. The very form of the work becomes not only the subject of creative reflection, but reveals its instability, fragility, formlessness.

2. The artistic consciousness of W. Wulf, on the one hand, gravitates towards completeness, but at the same time experiences the opposite tendency - the rejection of it. Blurred are the internal and external boundaries of the narrative. The beginning of the novel simulates the situation of an interrupted dialogue, thereby affirming the idea of ​​the fundamental anarchy of the work. On the other hand, the end of the novel testifies to the potential impossibility of its end, because the work opens into infinity.

The existence of the whole is predetermined by the operation of the law of stability, however, movement, development, the emergence of a new one is possible only in an unstable system. Such an unstable system in W. Wolfe's novel is a fragment, and the work as a whole is a collection of 12 fragments, the boundaries of which are determined by gaps. The openness and incompleteness of one fragment becomes the driving force for the generation of another.

The stability of the whole is achieved through the reconstruction of the logic of linking fragments. It is based on: the movement of artistic thought from the effect to the cause; remote and narratively proximate cause; transition of the narration into the zone of consciousness of another character; receiving accurate or inaccurate specular reflection; the image of a really observed person or its transformation by creative consciousness; the emotional reaction of the character at the moment of the present to the situation that occurred in the past; fixing a certain point in time; compositional gap (narrative gap, or 0 logic).

The stability of the whole is maintained thanks to the subject-object organization of the narrative. V. Wolfe transfers the narrative initiative to various subjects, whose points of view at certain moments of the narration become leading: a subjectless observer; subjective observers (both main and background); composing subject; narrator.

Thanks to the method of switching narrative points of view, on the one hand, the internal movement of the text is ensured, and on the other hand, conditions are created for modeling the communicative space.

3. The real communicative space is organized using the following techniques: switching narrative registers; panning; creating a systematically changing picture.

However, the real communicative space modeled by V. Wolfe, refracted through the prism of perception of various characters, becomes random, illusory, and therefore surreal in the reader's perception, because genuine communication in the artistic world of W. Wolfe is possible and realistically feasible only within the internal communicative space, the semantic and semiotic field of which can be read exclusively by its owner, represented by a subjectless observer, and reconstructed by the reader. Thus, a genuine act of communication in the artistic world of V. Wolfe is possible and really feasible only in the space of consciousness. Only here is it possible to achieve absolute mutual understanding, and only here opens the absolute abyss of existential loneliness. And the instrument by which consciousness exists is memory.

The first impetus, as a result of which the theater of memory unfolds on the pages of the novel, is the “depths of feelings”. Reality itself becomes a "form of memory" for W. Wolfe. There is a principle of inseparable trinity of reality - imagination - memory.

The temporal image that V. Wolf opens, flickers on the verge between "no longer" and "not yet." This is a continuing space of continuous changes, a possible characteristic of which may be its incompleteness, and the consequence is the process of identifying the image of the Self and the image of the world. Memory becomes an intermediary tool in this process. Due to the factor of psychological inclusion of consciousness at a certain moment of the past, it becomes an experienced present. At the intersection point, a space of increased tension, intensive work of thought is formed, in which a dialogue or polylogue is possible and even necessary - this is how the communicative space of memory is established.

The following vectors are distinguished in the movement of the text by V. Wolfe: the individual memory of the character/characters; collective (national-historical) memory; existential (mythological) memory; memory of language and culture; memory of the author's intention.

Along with the traditional process of remembering, the novel presents the mechanism of recall.

Their interaction models the space of individual memory of the central characters - Clarissa Dalloway and Peter Walsh. In relation to other characters (both the main ones - Septimus Warren-Smith and Lucretia - and the background ones), V. Wolfe uses a rather traditional method of imitation of individual memory. In such cases, interspersing plot situations of the past contribute to the creation of a narrative form of representation of characters.

4. The artistic text of W. Wolfe in its microstructure implicitly or explicitly contains the memory of language, culture and the author's intention. The explication of these layers becomes possible thanks to the study of such linguo-stylistic phenomena as parcellation and paranthesis.

The analysis of the semantic and functional field of parcelling made it possible to reconstruct some of the mechanisms for the formation of the communicative space of the novel, such as: filling the dieremic space in the direction of activating the sensory, mental and creative experience of the reader; formation of a strategy for retrograde (retrospective-recursive) reading; overcoming the semantic and hermeneutic lacuna as a consequence of the impact of the principle of semantic dissipation (scattering); impact of the author's corrective intention; exposure of the process of birth and extinction of the idea (both at the level of the conceptual model of the genre, and at the level of a separate component of the narrative structure); revealing the mechanism of approbation of the conceptual model of the genre of love, adventure, family novel as a result of using the technique of the unwritten novel.

The analysis of the semantic and functional field of the paranthesis made it possible to expand the boundaries of the communicative space of the novel at the level of memory of the artistic form and the author's intention. Thus, paranthesis contributes to the aggravation of the process of dialogization and dramatization of the narrative structure; makes a commentary on the interests, habits, tastes, views, history of the characters; explicates the presence of the auto-editing principle; concludes a commentary intention to the process of remembering the subject leading the narration; makes a comment-assessment, a comment-correction of the emotional experience of a situation that occurred in the past, from the standpoint of perception and mood at the moment of the present; contains a commentary on the assumption put forward by the composing person (or commentary - example - assumption); contains a comment (in the modality of suggestion) regarding the "content" of a character's gesture or gaze; makes it possible to discover the author's intention, aimed at finding a form adequate to the idea, and its acquisition through the contamination of dramatic and narrative techniques proper (at the same time, the path found is inevitably accompanied by the destruction of both the first and second systems); composes a remark-remark (from a concise, marking the place of action, a gesture or movement of a character, to a widespread one, including a whole period or paragraph and marking a situation or mise-en-scene from the external position of a subjectless observer); the information contained in such constructions is partly a decorative background or background of the corresponding mise-en-scène and/or action; signals a change in the subject and / or object of the narration.

5. At the same time, the author of this work has to admit that the study undertaken does not exhaust the whole variety of narrative possibilities of the analyzed text, but rather outlines prospects for further study of the structure of the narrative (for example, in the later works of W. Wolfe, both large and small forms ).

A possible continuation of the work can be a comparative analysis of the narrative structure of such works as "Mrs. Dalloway" by W. Wolfe and "Swan Song" by J. Galsworthy, as well as "Death of a Hero" by R. Aldington.

An equally interesting continuation could be a comparative analysis of the artistic thinking of W. Wolfe and such masters of the small psychological genre as G. Green, G. Bates, W. Trevor, S. Hill, D. Lessing and others.

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V. Dneprov

It's easy to criticize a Virginia Woolf novel, but you really shouldn't be seduced by this lightness. The novel was born more than 60 years ago and has not disappeared in the literary storms of our century: it lives on and continues to be read. According to Belinsky, the best critic is history, time. This "critic" spoke in favor of the novel, despite its palpable weaknesses.

The action of the novel took only one day, which, however, is not surprising. This day is dedicated to a significant event - a social reception scheduled for the evening - its success or failure is considered as an exciting problem. A more essential content lives, as it were, in the pores between the elements of the preparatory rite: the cleaning of the apartment, the arrangement of furniture, the choice of dishes, the putting in order of the green dress, recognized as worthy of celebration, the visit to the flower shop and the selection of flowers, the appearance of the first guests and that last moment when, closing doors behind them, the characters leave the novel, and the heroine is left alone - happily devastated. Throughout the day, every half an hour, the inexorable Big Ben beats loudly and melodiously - Time itself is put at the service of the upcoming festival. Such is the outer frame of the book, its scheme, or, if you like, its frame composition. Is the author teasing the reader, drawing him into a dispute: I am engaged in things so vain and external because the events that dominated the novel of the past are called upon to play a secondary role in the modern novel, and the internal action taking place in the subjective world of the characters acquires decisive importance - here is beauty and poetry.

And here's how a more significant action is simply introduced: it happened that on this very day Peter Walsh arrived from India after a long absence - a man whom Clarissa Dalloway seemed to love in her youth. Do not expect that conversations will follow with the inevitable “do you remember” and a showdown. It just doesn't exist in the novel. Dialogue occupies an insignificant place in it. Direct communication is replaced by what is usually called the internal monologue, or stream of consciousness of each of them, that is, recollection; the spiritual life of the heroes is open to us, we "see" and "hear" what happens in their minds, we directly comprehend everything that happens in someone else's soul. Thus, communication, as it were, is carried out through the reader: it is he who can compare, put into a certain relationship what he learned in their internal monologue or the process of remembering. The foregoing seems to be of paramount importance when it comes to the work under consideration by Virginia Woolf. Here the reader, passing alternately through the souls of Clarissa Dalloway and Peter Walsh, moving along the course of each of them's memories, seems to compose the novel himself.

Within these limits, there is some difference between interior monologue and stream of consciousness. In the first, the content depicted is more subject to thematic unity, more connected and subject to the logic of the unfolding meaning. In the second, the stream of consciousness, its course is broken by the intrusion of momentary, incidental impressions or unexpectedly emerging associations that change the direction of the mental process. The first can be represented by a more or less regular curve, the second by a broken line. The literary technique of the internal monologue, or stream of consciousness, was brought to maturity by Russian writers: Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. To understand the difference between an internal monologue and a stream of consciousness, it suffices to compare the depiction of Anna Karenina's internal states before her suicide, as given in the variant and the final text. In the first, the internal monologue decisively prevails, in the second - the stream of consciousness. (I mention this because Virginia Woolf's novel makes extensive use of the distinction, and the writer skilfully moves from one to the other.)

So: the stream-of-consciousness monologue of Clarissa Dalloway and Peter Walsh becomes the supporting structure of artistic content, leads to the main idea of ​​the novel. The strongest love excitements of Clarissa are connected with Peter Walsh, but this did not prevent her soberly and decisively from breaking with him and taking as her husband a benevolent and gentlemanly mediocre man, who promises her a quiet life, a comfortable and beautiful life, and, moreover, loves her so much that his love enough for her for years life together . Richard Dalloway is a model of an aristocratic-conservative nature, a stronghold of a life order without upheavals and crises, he will provide her with life at the social level that she needs. Peter Walsh is uneven, restless - moments of high tenderness and attraction to him are replaced by quarrels, he is too prone to unconventional judgments, there is an element of unpredictability in his actions, there is too much insight in his irony addressed to her to be desirable: Clarissa should be accepted and love it the way it is. Peter Walsh is neither personally nor socially reliable enough, he does not have the strength required to weave a nest with him. Now that she has achieved everything she hoped for, suddenly Peter appears again. Experienced with him passes in the memories as a living thing and requires an answer. Now Clarissa has matured and understands more clearly how much she has lost. But not for a moment does it occur to her to doubt her innocence. Now "love headlong" seems to her even more vague, more disturbing, more dangerous than it seemed before. And the current eccentric disorder of Peter confirms this. The test was not easy - it was associated with pain, but the result is quite clear. Now that she is over 50 years old, and she has essentially remained a young woman, slender, shiny and beautiful, Clarissa not only rejects Peter Walsh again, but goes beyond the borders of her memory, yesterday still warm and alive, finally saying goodbye to youth. It is noteworthy that the book, for the most part devoted to love, turns out to be anti-romantic through and through. Clarissa was capable of love, but did not want it, seeing above her another value that is more significant than love: the realm of poeticized aristocratic everyday life and tradition, tender partnership, joyful care of the house that she is so proud of. Mrs. Dalloway vividly represents a cultivated beautiful femininity, in spirit and flesh belonging to the world of conservatism and stability inherent in the English aristocratic environment. (Let me remind you that since the end of the seventeenth century, the aristocracy, having become an honorary part of the bourgeoisie and successfully serving its class, has retained some originality in morals, culture, life manners, showing over the course of these centuries the stability of a lifestyle that has not been seen in any other European country.) Ability the aristocracy and the upper stratum of the bourgeoisie to remain themselves in all the transformations of history is the invisible premise of the whole concept of being in the novel by Virginia Woolf. Let it be as before - such is the formula of the socio-psychological idea of ​​"Mrs. Dalloway". The reality of England after the First World War is, as it were, deliberately taken from the female end: husbands are given politics, careers, affairs, but the occupations and interests of women do not at all require knowledge of men's affairs in their essence. From such a ladylike-aristocratic position it is easier to depict the life of post-war England, bypassing the great upheavals of history.

Mrs. Dalloway, coming out into the London street, hearing its many-voiced noise, measured rhythm, the inner peace hidden in its revival, felt with special joy that this was the old London, "and there is no more war": it has been erased, washed away by the waves of the restored former English life. Peter Walsh, having arrived from India, found London imperturbably the same as he once knew it: as if a man returned to his old apartment and, with a feeling of rest, puts his feet in slippers without looking.

However, Woolf is a good enough writer not to amend the utopia of imperturbable English pragmatism, the idyll of time stopped. The war left such a notch in the memory of the nation that it is impossible to remain silent. The war had drawn a sharp black line into the happily luminous spectrum of London life.

The novel included a tragic episode. Just as suddenly as other characters, there appeared in the novel a young man, Septimus Smith, in whose humane, poetic soul the horror of war was reflected in a noble neurosis, leading to torment and death. His shocked psyche is depicted very accurately, with the kind of poetry that is not afraid of meeting the fatal questions of life. The doctors treating him are presented in the spirit of a cruel satire, coming from a realistic English novel of the 19th century. Soulless, self-satisfied, they are completely unable to understand the suffering of Septimus Smith, and their treatment is a special form of violence and suppression. The scene when Smith, horrified by the approach of the doctor, throws himself out of the window, was written by the hand of the master. The whole episode demonstrates the author's innermost, and not realized, possibilities. But the episode must be introduced into the general structure of the novel so that its idea, its basic tone, is not disturbed. That is why he is placed in brackets, isolated from the general course of the novel, taken to the margins of it. The episode is, as it were, the payment that prosperity pays to suffering - it, like the tail of a comet, stretches out from the war.

The basis of the novel is the artist's desire to preserve English reality as it was and is. Even changes for the better threaten its constancy - let it be better that everything remains unchanged. Virginia Woolf's novel is the embodiment of the spirit of conservatism that lives in every cell of artistically captured life. It's not just the superficiality of the author's approach to life - behind it is a conservative ideal, the desire to combine illusion and reality. Now, when English conservatism has become tougher, meaner, more aggressive, more dangerous, the emergence of a novel like "Mrs. Dalloway" as a work of art has become impossible. The hero of Lermontov is ready to give two lives "for one, but only full of worries", and Mrs. Dalloway easily gives such an extraordinary value as love, for a worry-free, beautifully prosperous life. The author does not condemn, does not approve of his heroine, he says: it is so. And at the same time admires the completeness and charming integrity of her character.

The author does not criticize her heroine, but she is unlikely to be able to avoid accurate criticism from the reader. Possessing the external and superficial signs of a charming woman, she is essentially devoid of femininity; the sharp mind of the heroine is dry and rational; she is catastrophically poor in the realm of emotions - Mrs. Dalloway's only burning emotion found in the book is hatred. Class prejudice replaces her feelings...

A lowly character in a lowly world at the time of gigantic upheavals. In all this, the narrowness of the historical and social horizons of the artist himself - Virginia Woolf ...

In order to see the novel of Virginia Woolf more broadly and more accurately, we must determine its connection with the phenomenon of art and culture, which Bunin called "increased susceptibility." It's about about historically developed changes in the structure of the human personality, changes that have affected the entire sphere of human sensory reactions, bringing new richness to their content. The same Bunin said about "the amazing figurativeness, verbal sensuality, which Russian literature is so famous for." From now on, the sensual connection of a person with the world forms a special layer of the human psyche, permeated with the most general emotions and thoughts. And Bunin's words refer primarily to Tolstoy, who artistically placed the world of the sensual in a new place - and was clearly aware of this.

But regardless of this shift in Russian literature, almost at the same time, great painting was being created in France, which said a new word in the history of world art and received the name impressionistic - from the word "impression". Anyone who has penetrated the world of this painting will forever see the world differently than he saw it before - with more sighted eyes, will perceive the beauty of nature and man in a new way. The deep educational significance of this painting is undeniable: it makes the acts of human existence more intense or, to use the words of Tolstoy, enhances his sense of life. To this it must be added that a similar process has taken shape in French literature: it is enough to compare the pictorialism of Balzac with the nuanced pictorialism of Flaubert, with his landscape that conveys the mood, or with the prose of Maupassant, highly valued by Tolstoy for its "colorfulness", to be convinced of what has been said. Both movements: in the color and light of painting, in the word of literature, closed in Proust's novel In Search of Lost Time - here the impressionist era in France is summed up.

The following is also significant: in his later years, Bunin admitted that he suddenly discovered a significant similarity between his prose and Proust's prose, adding that he had only recently become acquainted with the works of the French writer, thereby saying that the similarity appeared beyond any mutual influence. All this allows us to talk about an era in the development of art, a historical stage in the "phenomenology of man."

English literature joined this process much later than Russia and France. It is worth noting that the group of English writers who were guided by "increased susceptibility" directly referred to the achievements of the "Post-Impressionists": Van Gogh, Cezanne, Gauguin. It was to this group that Virginia Woolf joined, wittily and faithfully depicting her lineage as a writer in her articles. Naturally, she turned first of all to the work of Tolstoy, whom she considered the greatest novelist in the world. She especially liked the fact that Tolstoy depicts people and human communication, moving from the external to the internal - after all, here is the core of her entire artistic program. But she resolutely did not like the fact that the famous "Russian soul" plays such a large role in Tolstoy's writings. She had in mind that in Tolstoy we meet not only with the adjunction of emotions and thoughts to the blessed realm of increased impressionability, to the sphere of contemplation, but also the overlying layers of personality, where questions about the moral forces of the people are raised and resolved, where the image of the ideological personality. Virginia Woolf is drawn to the first, and the second is alien and undesirable to her. She, as we see, knows how to think clearly and knows what she needs.

Much closer to her was the English-language writer Joyce - a wonderful stylist, enormously gifted in the field of figurative speech and who developed the techniques of the "stream of consciousness" to perfection. From Joyce, she took the idea of ​​consciousness, which is momentarily dependent on invading impressions and the chains of association coming from them, of the intertwining of “now” and “was” into an inseparable unity. But she, as an extreme, was irritated by the disorder, the disorder of this consciousness, its lack of culture: a lot in it speaks of mass character and common people. The spontaneous democratism of Joyce's art was alien and unpleasant to her. With Wolfe's characteristic class instinct, somewhere deep down connected with aesthetic taste, she guessed how alien to her in all respects Mr. Bloom with his petty deeds and worries, with his mass-petty-bourgeois experiences. She wanted her keen susceptibility to be tightened with a sense of proportion, which entered into flesh and blood and only occasionally burst into passionate outbursts.

Virginia Woolf speaks of Proust with great reverence as the source of modern literature, designed to replace obsolete literature such as the Forsyte Saga. Reading her novel, at every step you meet with the influence of Proust - right down to the tone and manner of expression. Like Proust, in Mrs. Dalloway, the process of recollection plays an important role, forming the main content of the novel. True, in Wolfe the stream of memory is included in the "today", memory is separated from the present, while in Proust this stream moves from the depths of time, turning out to be both past and present. This difference is not just external.

In Woolf, as in Proust, the action is played out on the upper floor of life: they do not look into those socio-economic mechanisms that determine the conditions of life of the characters; they accept these conditions in their essence as given. But the definite bears the features of the defining, and Proust, within the limits set for himself, gives the finest social characteristics of the characters portrayed, representing the socially particular in all its possible reflections. Virginia Woolf's horizons are narrower, more constrained, her person in most cases coincides with the English aristocrat - and yet she clearly outlines the subtle differences of social typicality through the subjective world of her heroes. Not to mention the fact that secondary characters - in "characteristic" roles - in the overwhelming majority of cases are described in the traditions of the English realistic novel: Woolf sees no point in examining them in the aspect of subjectivity.

Proust's influence on Woolf's novel is most determined by the fact that Proust builds the human image mainly from impressions and the combination of impressions, from what "painfully exaggerated sensibility" can give. At the center of Woolf's artistic world is also "sensibility". Perceptions are like flashes that are born from the contact of the subject with the surrounding world or another subject. Such flashes are moments of poetry, moments of the fullness of being.

But here, too, there is an important difference between Woolf and Proust: Proust, not caring about proportions or entertainment, is ready, concentrating on one impression, to devote many pages to it. Woolf is alien to such an extreme sequence, she is afraid of the merciless clarity of Proust. She, as it were, throws a transparent veil over a given sum of perceptions, immerses them in a kind of unifying shimmer, a light haze, subordinating their diversity to the unity of color. Proust talks long and hard about one thing. Woolf - short and concise about many things. She does not achieve the enthusiasm that Proust seeks, but her prose is easier to digest, it may seem more entertaining, it is softer, more proportionate to Proust's prose. Proust's novel is difficult to read: it is not easy to follow a writer who, in the psychological microcosm, untiringly divides an impression into elementary parts and includes it in a whole circle of associations; Woolf makes it easier, she runs through the series of impressions faster, she is more moderate here too, fearing extremes and one-sidedness. Wolfe's artistic virtue is sharply filed moderation. She so combines the extremes of her predecessors that there is a smooth harmony at the level of high artistic culture. In addition, along the way, she can benefit from the lessons of Henry James, whose phrase moves through subtly subtle shades, caresses the ear with grace and sweet-musical rhythm. Still, Wolfe will not descend with James into the dark chaos of a novel of his like The Turn of the Screw.

It would be unfair to consider as a disadvantage such a reduction of many independently developed forms into a kind of unity. This kind of artistic coexistence, this rounding of sharp corners, is precisely what makes Wolfe herself, which creates a peculiarly English version of prose based on "heightened receptivity", which determines the place of the novel "Mrs. Dalloway" in a literary era that has taken over many countries. - from Russia and France to Hemingway's American prose or Norwegian prose.

From the first pages, we learn how the engine of the novel starts, in what rhythm it sounds. The first line of the novel is: "Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." And I thought: "What a fresh morning." And from the thought of a sudden throw in the morning from youth. “How good! It's like you're dipping! It was always like that when, to the faint squeak of the hinges, which is still in her ears, she opened the glass doors of the terrace in Borton and plunged into the air. Fresh, quiet, not what it is now, like a slap of a wave; the whisper of a wave..."

From the decision to go for flowers, a throw to the fact that the morning is fresh, from him a throw to a memorable morning from his youth. And from this there is another throw: to Peter Walsh, who said: "Dream among vegetables." The relation between the past and the present is included: the air is quiet, not like now. Included is the author's decision not to pose as a man, but to remain a woman in the field of art as well: the slap of a wave, the whisper of a wave. We immediately learn about much that begins to happen in the novel, but without any involvement of the narrative. The narration will arise if the reader manages to link together, as it were, moments of a moving consciousness flying in different directions. The content is guessed without the help of the author: from a combination of elements calculated by the author in such a way that the reader has at hand everything that ensures guessing. We learn about the appearance of the heroine from the act of seeing, through the eyes of a person, by chance - that's luck! - who happened to be next to Clarissa at the moment when she stood on the sidewalk, waiting for the van: “something, perhaps, looks like a bird: a jay; blue-green, light, lively, even though she is already over fifty ... "

Clarissa walks to the flower shop, and at this time a lot of events are happening in her head - we quickly and imperceptibly move into the center of the novel plot and at the same time learn something important about the character of the heroine. She reached the gates of the park. She stood for a moment, looking at the buses rolling down Piccadilly. She will not talk about anyone on the sow: he is such or such. She feels infinitely young, at the same time inexpressibly ancient. She is like a knife, everything goes through; at the same time she is outside, watching. Here she is looking at a taxi, and it always seems to her that she is far, far away on the sea, alone; she always has the feeling that to live even a day is a very, very dangerous thing.” Here we meet with the "stream of consciousness" - a model of Virginia Woolf. The stream easily sways, not stopping at one thing, overflowing from one to another. But the running motifs then link with each other, and these linkages give the key to deciphering, make it possible to read his supposedly incoherent speech coherently. At the beginning of the paragraph, we read that Clarissa “will not say about anyone: he is like this or that” - a short, tattered thought. But she's grappled with prior thoughts about whether she was right to marry Richard Dalloway and not Peter Walsh. And then, at the end of the paragraph, the flow turns sharply to Peter Walsh again: “and she won’t talk about Peter anymore, she won’t talk about herself: I am this, I am that.” In the stream, thin streams are indicated, either coming to the surface, or hiding in the depths. The more fully the reader becomes acquainted with the original collision of the novel, the easier he is to single out the various lines of content that run through the fluid elements of Mrs. Dalloway's consciousness.

Finally she's at the flower shop. “There were: spur, sweet peas, lilacs and carnations, an abyss of carnations. There were roses, there were irises. Oh, and she breathed in the earthy, sweet smell of the garden..., she nodded to irises, roses, lilacs, and, closing her eyes, absorbed after the roar of the street a particularly fabulous smell, amazing coolness. And how fresh, when she opened her eyes again, roses looked at her, as if lacy linen had been brought from the laundry on wicker trays; and how strict and dark the carnations are, and how upright they hold their heads, and the sweet peas are touched by lilacness, snowiness, pallor, as if it were already evening, and the girls in muslin went out to pick sweet peas and roses at the end of a summer day with a deep blue, almost blackening sky, with carnations , spur, arum; and it’s as if it’s already the seventh hour, and every flower - lilac, carnation, irises, roses - sparkles with white, purple, orange, fiery and burns with a separate fire, gentle, clear, on foggy flowerbeds ... ”Here is painting with a word and at the same time a poem , here is artistically the highest realm of Virginia Woolf art. Such pictorial poems of impressions, crossing the text, maintain the artistic level of the whole. Reduce their number - and this level will decrease and, perhaps, collapse. We vividly feel the pleasure with which the author repeats, like a chorus or a poetic spell, the names of flowers, as if even the names are fragrant. Like this, it is worth pronouncing the names Shakespeare, Pushkin, Chekhov, and we feel a wave of poetry hitting us.

And one more thing needs to be said. Each reader in the above passage undoubtedly feels that this was written by a woman ... Many signs scattered throughout the text make this known with certainty. Until the 20th century, in the art of fiction, "man in general" spoke male voice, with masculine intonations. The writer could conduct the most subtle analysis of female psychology, but the author remained a man. Only in our century is human nature differentiated in the initial positions of art into male and female. The opportunity appears and is realized in the very method of depiction to reflect the originality of the female psyche. This is a big topic, and I have no doubt that it will be adequately explored. And in this study, the novel "Mrs. Dalloway" will find its place.

Finally, the last. I mentioned the orientation of the group to which Woolf was attached to the French Post-Impressionists. This orientation did not remain an empty phrase. The path to revealing the beauty of the surrounding world is related to the path of Van Gogh, Gauguin and other artists of the direction. Rapprochement of literature with contemporary painting is an essential fact of art late XIX- the first quarter of the 20th century.

How much we learned about the heroine of the novel during her short walk to the flower shop; how many serious and vainly feminine thoughts flew through her lovely head: from thoughts about death, about religion, about love to a comparative analysis of her feminine attractiveness with the attractiveness of other women or about the special significance of gloves and shoes for true elegance. What a large amount of diverse information is placed on more than four pages. If you pass from these pages to the whole novel, it will become clear what an enormous saturation of information is achieved by combining an internal monologue with a stream of consciousness, a montage of impressions, feelings and thoughts, supposedly randomly replacing each other, but in fact carefully verified and worked out. Of course, such a literary technique can be artistically successful only in a number of special cases - and we have just one of such cases.

By the methods of a kind of mosaic, so to speak, nested image, a rare completeness of the characterization of Mrs. Dalloway was achieved, and, closing the book, you thoroughly recognized her appearance, her psychological world, the play of her soul - everything that makes up the individual typicality of the heroine. The word “mosaic” is used in a broad sense: it is not a portrait composed of fixed stones of different colors, as in a Byzantine mosaic, but a portrait created by changing combinations of multi-colored, igniting and fading light pulses.

Clarissa Dalloway steadfastly keeps the image that has developed in the opinion of the people around her: a calmly proud winner, who fully owns the art of aristocratic simplicity. And no one - neither her husband, nor her daughter, nor Peter Walsh who loves her - knows what is hidden in the depths of her soul, which is not visible from the outside. This specific divergence between the line of external behavior and the line of movement of subjective consciousness is, in Woolf's view, what we usually call the secret of woman. There is a lot going on in the depths that no one except herself knows about her - no one except Virginia Woolf, who created her heroine along with her secrets. "Mrs. Dalloway" - a novel without mystery; one of the important themes of the novel is precisely the question of the soil from which the feminine secret grows. This soil is historically hardened ideas about a woman, to which she, like it or not, is forced to orient herself in order not to deceive her expectations. Virginia Woolf touched upon a serious problem here, which, in one way or another, the women's novel of the 20th century had to deal with.

I'll say a few words about Peter Walsh - just in one connection. Woolf knew how to write a novel, and she wrote it the right way. It was where Peter Walsh is mentioned that she spoke most clearly on the decisive question of the meaning of heightened susceptibility. “This impressionability was a real disaster for him ... Probably, his eyes saw some kind of beauty; or simply the burden of this day, which in the morning, from the visit of Clarissa, tormented with heat, brightness and drip-drip-drip of impressions, one after another into the cellar, where they will all remain in the dark, in the depths - and no one will know ... When suddenly the connection of things is revealed; ambulance"; life and death; a storm of feelings suddenly seemed to pick him up and carry him to the high roof, and below there was only a bare, white, shell-strewn beach. Yes, she was a real disaster for him in India, in the English circle - this is his impressionability. Reread the pages dedicated to Peter; Walsh on the eve of the evening feast, and you will find there aesthetic program Virginia Woolf.

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Essay

Stylistic analysis of the features of the modernist novel by S. Wolfe

"Mrs. Dalloway"


English novelist, critic and essayist Virginia Stephen Woolf (Virginia Stephen Woolf, 1882-1941) is considered one of the most authentic writers in England between the First and Second World Wars. Dissatisfied with novels based on the known, the factual, and the abundance of external details, Virginia Woolf took the experimental paths of a more internal, subjective and, in a sense, more personal interpretation. life experience, adopting this style from Henry James, Marcel Proust and James Joyce.

In the works of these masters, the reality of time and perception shaped the stream of consciousness, a concept that perhaps owes its origin to William James. Virginia Woolf lived and responded to a world where every experience is associated with difficult changes in knowledge, the civilized primitiveness of war and new morals and manners. She described her own, sensual poetic reality, without, however, renouncing the legacy of the literary culture in which she grew up.

Virginia Woolf is the author of about 15 books, among which the last "A Writer's Diary" was published after the writer's death in 1953. "Mrs. Dalloway", "To the Lighthouse" and "Jacob's Room" (Jacob "s Room , 1922) make up much of Virginia Woolf's literary legacy. "Journey" (The Voyage Out, 1915) is her first novel, which attracted the attention of critics. "Night and Day" (Night and Day, 1919) is a traditional work in terms of methodology. Short stories from "Monday or Tuesday" (Monday or Tuesday, 1921) received critical acclaim in the press, but "In the Waves" (In The Waves, 1931) she masterfully applied the technique of stream of consciousness. Her experimental novels include Orlando (Orlando, 1928), The Years (1937) and Between the Acts (1941). Virginia Woolf's struggle for women's rights was expressed in "Three Guineas" (Three Guineas, 1938) and some other works.

In this paper, the object of study is Wolfe W.'s novel "Mrs. Dalloway".

Subject of study - genre features novel Mrs Dalloway. The goal is to reveal the features of the modernist novel in the text. The work consists of an introduction, two main parts, a conclusion and a list of references.

Work on the novel "Mrs. Dalloway" began with a story called "in Bond Street": it was completed in October 1922, and in 1923 it was published in the American magazine Clockface. However, the finished story "didn't let go", and Woolf decided to rework it into a novel.

The original idea is only partly similar to what we know today under the name "Mrs. Dalloway" [Bradbury M.].

The book was supposed to have six or seven chapters describing the social life of London, one of the main characters was the Prime Minister; the storylines, as in the final version of the novel, "converged at one point during a reception with Mrs. Dalloway." It was assumed that the book would be quite cheerful - this can be seen from the surviving sketches. However, dark notes were also woven into the story. As Wolfe explained in the foreword, which is published in some publications, the main character, Clarissa Dalloway, was supposed to commit suicide or die during her party. Then the idea underwent a number of changes, but some obsession with death remained in the novel - another main character appeared in the book - Septimus Warren Smith, shell-shocked during the war: in the course of work, it was assumed that his death should be announced at the reception. Like final version, the in-between ended with a description of the reception at Mrs. Dalloway's house.

Until the end of 1922, Woolf continued to work on the book, making more and more corrections. At first, Woolf wanted to name the new thing "Clock" in order to emphasize the difference between the flow of "external" and "internal" time in the novel by the title itself. Although the idea seemed very attractive, the book, nevertheless, was difficult to write. The work on the book was subject to Woolf's mood swings - from ups and downs to despair - and demanded that the writer formulate her view of reality, art and life, which she expressed so fully in her critical works. Notes about "Mrs. Dalloway" in the diaries and notebooks of the writer are living history writing one of the most important novels in modern literature. It was carefully and thoughtfully planned, nevertheless it was written heavily and unevenly, periods of creative upsurge were replaced by painful doubts. Sometimes it seemed to Woolf that she wrote easily, quickly, brilliantly, and sometimes the work did not move from the dead center, giving the author a feeling of powerlessness and despair. The exhausting process lasted two years. As she herself noted, the book was worth “... the devil's struggle. Her plan is elusive, but it's a masterful build. I have to turn my whole self inside out all the time in order to be worthy of the text. And the cycle of creative fever and creative crisis, excitement and depression continued for another whole year, until October 1924. When the book came out in March 1925, most reviewers immediately called it a masterpiece.

The key phrase for the modernist novel is “stream of consciousness”.

The term “stream of consciousness” was borrowed by writers from the American psychologist William James. He became decisive for understanding the human character in the new novel and its entire narrative structure. This term successfully generalized a number of ideas of modern philosophy and psychology, which served as the basis for modernism as a system of artistic thinking.

Wolfe, following the examples of his teachers, deepens the Proustian “stream of consciousness”, trying to capture the very process of thinking of the characters in the novel, to reproduce all of them, even fleeting, sensations and thoughts [Zlatina E.].

The whole novel is a “stream of consciousness” of Mrs. Dalloway and Smith, their feelings and memories, broken into certain segments by the blows of Big Ben. This is a conversation of the soul with itself, a living flow of thoughts and feelings. The ringing of the bells of Big Ben, which beats every hour, is heard by everyone, each from his place. A special role in the novel belongs to the clock, especially the main clock in London - Big Ben, associated with the Parliament building, power; the bronze hum of Big Ben marks each of the seventeen hours during which the novel takes place [Bradbury M.]. Pictures of the past surface, appearing in Clarissa's memories. They rush in the stream of her consciousness, their contours are indicated in conversations, remarks. Details and names flash by that will never be clear to the reader. Time layers intersect, flow one on top of the other, in a single moment the past merges with the present. “Do you remember the lake?” Clarissa asks a friend of her youth, Peter Walsh, and her voice was cut off by a feeling that suddenly made her heart beat out of place, caught her throat and tightened her lips when she said “lake”. For - immediately - she, a girl, threw bread crumbs to the ducks, standing next to her parents, and as an adult woman she walked along the shore towards them, walked and walked and carried her life in her arms, and the closer to them, this life grew in her hands, swelled until she became all life, and then she laid her down at their feet and said: “That's what I made of her, that's it!” What did she do? Really, what? Sitting and sewing next to Peter today.” The noticed experiences of the characters often seem insignificant, but a careful fixation of all the states of their souls, what Wolfe calls “moments of being” (moments of being), grows into an impressive mosaic, which is composed of many changing impressions, striving to elude observers - fragments of thoughts, random associations, fleeting impressions. What is valuable for Woolf is that which is elusive, inexpressible by anything but sensations. The writer exposes the irrational depths of individual existence and forms a flow of thoughts, as it were, “caught halfway”. The protocol colorlessness of the author's speech is the background of the novel, creating the effect of immersing the reader in a chaotic world of feelings, thoughts, and observations.

Although outwardly the outline of the plot-plot narrative is observed, in fact, the novel lacks precisely the traditional eventfulness. Actually, events, as the poetics of the classical novel understood them, are not here at all [Genieva E.].

Narrative exists on two levels. The first, although not clearly eventful, is external, material. They buy flowers, sew up a dress, walk in the park, make hats, receive patients, discuss politics, wait for guests, throw themselves out of the window. Here, in an abundance of colors, smells, sensations, London arises, seen with amazing topographical accuracy in different time day, under different lighting conditions. Here the house freezes in the morning silence, preparing for the evening flurry of sounds. Here the clock of Big Ben beats inexorably, measuring the time.

We really live with the heroes of the long June day of 1923 - but not only in real time. We are not only witnesses to the actions of the heroes, we are, first of all, "spies" who have penetrated "the holy of holies" - their soul, memory, their dreams. For the most part, they are silent in this novel, and all real conversations, dialogues, monologues, disputes take place behind a veil of Silence - in memory, imagination. Memory is capricious, it does not obey the laws of logic, memory often rebels against order, chronology. And although the blows of Big Ben constantly remind us that time moves, it is not astronomical time that rules in this book, but internal, associative time. It is the secondary events that have no formal relation to the plot that serve as the basis for the internal movements that take place in the mind. IN real life only a few minutes separate one event from another in the novel. Here Clarissa took off her hat, put it on the bed, listened to some sound in the house. And suddenly - instantly - because of some trifle: either a smell, or a sound - the floodgates of memory opened, two realities - external and internal - were paired. I remembered, I saw childhood - but it did not flash in a quick, warm way in my mind, it came to life here, in the middle of London, in the room of an already middle-aged woman, bloomed with colors, resounded with sounds, rang with voices. Such a pairing of reality with memory, moments over the years creates a special internal tension in the novel: a strong psychological discharge slips through, the flash of which highlights the character.

“Clarissa is sincere – here. Peter will find her sentimental. She is sentimental, indeed. Because she understood: the only thing to talk about is our feelings. All this cleverness is nonsense. Just what you feel is what you have to say.”
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We are all so different, so special, but we all love life and, one way or another, yearn to enjoy it. And literature is a pleasure, no matter how we treat this art. Virginia Woolf, who created the experimental novel of the new 20th century, returns to the word as a form the beauty that one wants to enjoy. This is the genetic code that is embedded in us, whether by nature or God. We live and want to embrace with our senses, soul, mind - everything that is possible to do - all the being in which we find ourselves. This is probably the essence of the living - to embrace the infinite in the midst of the entire finite world of things and words ... and suffer a sweet defeat, retaining a small fraction of hope for future success. Such is the notorious "circle of life" destined for us, and literature here is a wonderful tool, an opportunity to look around in the midst of the "little things of life."

It was the incomparable Virginia, the crazy Virginia, a perceptive and subtly sensitive woman who, in the solitude of her world, created a living verbal Cosmos of ideas and heroes in which we guess ourselves. I will not hide the fact that I came to the novel "Mrs. Dalloway" thanks to the excellent film adaptation of the book by contemporary American writer Michael Cunningham "The Hours". There one of the heroines (there are three in all) is Virginia Woolf herself, fascinated by the writing of "Mrs. Dalloway" in the midst of a circle of personal unresolved issues, which in the end are resolved only with the writer's suicide. Cunningham in his novel managed, like no one else, to penetrate so deeply into the essence of the mysterious and contradictory female soul that turning to the work of Woolf herself became an exciting journey for me!

The novel describes a day in the life of an already middle-aged London society lady - Clarissa Dalloway. This day is made up of many monologues of accompanying characters that we meet, which create a special space for the disclosure of the heroine herself and the dialogue that she leads with life. Various meetings, conversations, dialogues take place, but the most main voice- this is the voice of the heroine, in which we guess Virginia herself. Probably, life is dialogues and monologues, intertwined in its own individual pattern, and the writer is that constant experimenter with words, trying only to reflect reality from that angle of view and in that spectrum of colors, as this world appears to him. I was worried about the question of normality as such, and I realized something for myself: there are no normal or abnormal people in creativity, in art, everything depends only on a different degree of sensitivity. Virginia's novel is her sensitivity to the signs and symbols in which we clothe our or someone else's reality; colliding, we intertwine precisely these parts of ourselves with others, which in fact are “other” in contrast to us, sometimes too “other” ...

I advise reading this novel to those who want to touch the mysterious female soul, although in themselves they will find a part of this soul - as ancient as the world itself. There are no religions and atheists - in this part human knowledge because to deify the masculine is just as pointless as the feminine. The main character Clarissa herself remarks in passing (this applies to her daughter, who was lured into religious affairs by their housekeeper): “I never converted anyone to religion. I prefer everyone to be themselves. Religious ecstasy makes people callous and insensitive." Well, everyone has the right to own opinion, because it was at that time that feminism and, in general, liberal ideas about the value of a person and his free choice were spreading throughout Europe. Today we are skeptical about freedom, because it is a compromise with society, and it is always imperfect. Virginia herself showed well the tragedy of human life after the First World War in one of the mountains that had just returned from the front; it is a challenge to the very idea of ​​war and violence, which turns the soul upside down and makes you insane. Criticism of society and all its political and social imperfections is seen throughout the novel, but the personality turns out to be stronger than the tendencies, no matter what this personality is.

One way or another, but the power of life and our own habits moves us forward, the day ends with an evening reception, which Clarissa has prepared for everyone. And we, together with her, are approaching a certain finale, a certain line, everything ends sooner or later ... Memories and feelings remain ...


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