Novel-reconstruction: the creation of the genre (On "The Creation of Karamzin" by Yu. Lotman)

Abstract

Y. Lotman’s defined his own book " The Creation of Karamzin” as a " novel-reconstruction”. This is an attempt to create a new genre — the ideal historical description, organized as a polylogue between the historian, novelist and semiotician. For this, Lotman relied on Karamzin’s experience. The structural and semiotic characteristics of the novel-reconstruction allow revealing some new features of Karamzin’s "History".

Keywords

• karamzin
• yuri lotman
• novel-reconstruction
• semiotics of history