Bilogorska L. Grin's Novels as Artistic Unity: Motif, Symbolism, Chronotope, Characters Typology

The dissertation is devoted to the study of the artistic world of Alexander Grin’s novels. He was a writer whose true scale and significance began to be comprehended relatively recently. For a long time he was perceived only as the author of adventure literature for youth. Now researchers are increasingly considering Grin in the context of his era – the Silver Age: her poetics, a range of images and techniques. The attention focus of many modern literary scholars is the innovation of Grin the prose writer, his writing technique, the role of modernist, symbolist, impressionist structures and meanings in his work. In a modern research context, Grin appears as a major innovator, a representative of modernist prose, the author of multi-layered polyphonic texts that combine an adventure plot with complex symbolism and philosophical overtones. Literary critics have repeatedly drawn attention to the integrity of Alexander Grin’s world artistic picture. The world of Grin's works was immediately comprehended as a special reality, created not in single texts of the writer, but in the entire totality of his works. In this scientific work, it is revealed that the writer's novels taken together represent a special type of unity. Multiple multilevel connections between all his novels make it possible to talk about the creation of a single metanovel complex by Grin, reflecting the author's myth about the world, which corresponds to the general trend in the literature of the era of the turn of the XIX-XX centuries, manifested in a tendency towards cyclization, towards the unification of individual works into meta-genre and metatextual unity. This is inherent in modernist and, in particular, symbolist art movements. The Ph.D thesis analyzes such features of Grin's artistic picture of the world asmetatextual unity of the writer's novel corpus, endowed with clearly identifiable constant characteristics; the connection between the metatextual integrity of Grin's novels with symbolism as the formative context for this writer; generative (generative) function of the story "Scarlet Sails" in relation to the Grin’s novels.