GAITO GAZDANOV’S MUSIC (“THE SILENT CONCERTO” IN “AN EVENING AT CLAIRE'S” AND “THE MUTE SYMPHONY” IN “EVELINA AND HER FRIENDS”)

Abstract

The article describes the synthesis of arts modernist principle in the poetics of Gaito Gazdanov's novels. The analysis of motives and units of text helps to establish the fact, that music is not just a literary detail, but also a method of the narrative structure of Gazdanov's prose. The study is based on the material of the novels “An Evening with Claire” and “Evelina and Her Friends”. As shown, music for Gazdanov is connected with life-creating theory and becomes a marker of self-determining artistic manner. This demonstrates, that in his early writings we can see the traces of symbolist principle «world as music». In later works, Gazdanov preferred belletristic style, but still put music in the centre of his works and used it as a “tuning fork” for his art.