SHORT STORY “IONYCH” (ON THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE NOVEL)

Abstract

The article discusses the genre originality of the Chekhov’s story «Ionych» in interaction with the traditions of the genre of the novel. Through the analysis of plot and compositional features of story, image of the personality of the main character and his interaction with society conclusions are drawn that Chekhov builds the history of the development of personality in the novel scheme, however, the concise form of the story allows to identify the most significant psychological and philosophical problems of the work. The image of the family in the story becomes one of the means of such concentration issues. In the interaction with the Turbins as a model of county-level urban society happens the deformation of the image of the character in accordance with the scheme “from Startsev to Ionych”, as well as in the dispute with it.