N. V. Gogol' and B. A. Sadovskoy: stylization, parody, interpretation

Abstract

The article discusses the causes of the appeal of Boris Sadovskoy to the figure of Gogol' in his prose. It is noted that the image of the writer is always styled in accordance with specific tasks that are solved in a particular work. Gogol appears for the first time in the role of a character in the story "Festive Day of Lieutenant Matradurov". The reconstructed picture of walks along Nevsky Prospekt is not just projected onto Gogol's grotesque fantasies, but serves as a parody of them. In the story "From the papers of Prince G." Sadovskoy, continuing the ironic game with quasi-historical certainty, not only fits Gogol's conditional figure into the equally conventional world of the past, but also destroys the myth of Gogol', popular at the beginning of the 20th century. In the story "The Bloody Star", where Gogol' was portrayed as a supporting character, his role in the plot events, subordinated to the actions of the infernal forces, is important for understanding their hidden meaning. In the story "The Double" the epigraph from Gogol's novel "Portrait" acquires the important significance. The author of the article shows how Sadovskoy, using ironic stylization, seeks to restore the structure of Gogol's thought.

Keywords

• Sadovskoy
• Gogol stylization
• parody
• ironic game
• artistic interpretation