Article

Name: The Poetics of Victor Ivaniv’s prose in the context of ornamental prose of the XX–XXI century

Authors: I. S. Poltoratsky

Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences

Abstract: The article is dedicated to the analysis of the specific characteristics of the poetical prose of modern Russian writer Victor Iванiv (1977–2015). By the developing of poetics of vanguard prose of the 20-30th years of the last century, Ivaniv creates relevant model of the autoreflexive letter-type, erasing conditional border between art fiction and the biographic fact. One of the constructive principles of poetics of Victor Iванiv is the syncretism – the prosaic and poetic texts connected at the different levels by a chain of equivalent elements unite in the complete metagenre, created by all corpus of the author`s texts. The term poetic or ornamental prose denotes the result of an overdetermination of the narrative text with specifically poetic devices such as rhythmmicizing and sound repetition. Such overdetermination generally occurs with the creation of thematic and formal equivalence, i.e. with the strengthening of the paradigmatic order or even the dominance of non-temporal over temporal linking (Schmid: Non-Temporal Linking in Narration). In ornamental prose it is as though the author, behind the narrator’s back, so to speak, were to cast a net of formal and thematic linkages over the text, overruling the narrator and his point of view and conferring on the text a poetic fabric with the effect of neutralizing all individual linguistic points of view. Such poetization of narrative takes place during epochs in which the poetic pole dominates, i.e. when the equivalence principle, characteristic of poetry, tends to extend its reach into the field of narrative prose. In Russian literature between 1890 and 1930, ornamental prose took the lead among narrative genres. So stated Shklovskij in 1924: “Contemporary Russian prose is to a large extent ornamental in character.” Ornamentalism is an artistic icon of myth whereby poetic experience and mythical thought are assumed to be in close harmony. What makes poetic and mythical thought analogous is their common tendency to abolish the nonmotivation of signs adhered to in realism. The word, which in the realistic approach to language is only an arbitrary symbol determined by convention, tends to become, in ornamentalism as well as in mythical thought, an icon, an image of its own meaning. The iconicity that poetry imparts to prose partakes of magical speaking in myth. Similar features of art language are also observed in prosaic works by modern writers: Victor Iванiv, V. Bogomyakov, D. Osokin, S. Snytko and etc.

Keywords: ornamental prose, Victor Ivaniv, modern Russian literature, vanguard

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