HUMANITARIAN RESEARCHES

Journal of fundamental and applied researches

LEV RUBINSTEIN’S AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL PROSE

2019. №2, pp. 124-128

Romanovskaya Olga E. - Candidate of Philological Sciences, Astrakhan State University, volga75sky@mail.ru

The author analyzes compositional and narrative features of Leo Rubinstein's memoir "The whole year. My calendar." The author focuses in the "symphonics" of many voices. The analysis of many voices interaction reveals a complex attitude towards the past: from a sentimental lyrical attempt to recreate the details of the past to an ironic and sarcastic understanding of childhood and juvenility against the backdrop of a "big" history. The article concludes that Rubinstein’s book narrative strategy reconstructs interaction dynamics between era’s different languages and collective experience of history relive.

Key words: Лев Рубинштейн, автобиография, повествование, рассказчик, многоголосие, Lev Rubinstein, autobiography, narration, narrator, many voices

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