The story of L. Ulitskaya "Sonechka" is constructed as a continuous dialogue with classical Russian literature - at the level of the plot, images, names of heroes, and also - at the level of references, allusions, citations, with which the text of the ...
The story of L. Ulitskaya "Sonechka" is constructed as a continuous dialogue with classical Russian literature - at the level of the plot, images, names of heroes, and also - at the level of references, allusions, citations, with which the text of the story is saturated. The writer uses a variety of ways to build a dialogue with the classics.
Precedent names, and above all - the name of the heroine itself, the semantics of which are complicated by numerous symbolic associations with "literary Sofya" - the heroines of Fonvizin, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky. But for any such "parallel of names, the image of the heroine of Ulitskaya receives some of the qualities with which the heroine prototype is endowed, but at the same time, the image of Ulitskaya at any time does not become equal or even simply similar to the original image. Ulitskaya leads the dialogue, which consists in rethinking, not repetition of the images.
Transformation of traditional genres, in particular - the genre of a family novel-chronicle. Ulitskaya in many respects uses the traditional scheme of constructing such a novel, but transforms it - again in connection with the fact that both the historical time and the conditions of life change. And in these new conditions, the expansion and expansion of the family is already different, sometimes in a completely paradoxical way. But such is life, her heroine, although she looks back at literary models, but nevertheless, does not live by it.