Shvets G. The artistic realm of the novel by A.I.Solzhenitsyn "The First Circle".

Dissertation develops a non-traditional concept of poetic world and the notions that derive from this main concept: poetic conflict, hero, and type. These concepts are examined on the material of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s novel “The First Circle”. The plot of “The First Circle” demonstrates manifests in various ways the single ontological (architectonic) conflict, particularly, the conflict between the “whole of man” and man’s concrete and specific existence with its necessary attributes: need for freedom and facility for cognition. The characters of “The First Circle” acquire their compositional (social) roles in respect to the ways in which they solve this conflict. The character is the subject of poetic world; accordingly, his need for freedom is excessive: uniqueness is the essential characteristic of poetic world. This excessiveness assumes the form of a collision between external freedom and lack thereof. The only way in which external freedom can be implemented consists in liberation of the other. This behavior of the character is ontologically senseless; the narrator’s account of this behavior is anti-aesthetic because the reader is deprived of the opportunity to make another choice.