The artistic realm and the physical reality

Abstract

This article reasons that the literature does not reflect the reality,but uses it for creating a special artistic realm. In the process of such creating, physical reality is aesthetically deformed or deconstructed; real meanings are transformed into aesthetic ones. As a result, the artistic realm of literature is understood as a system of contextual meanings realized through a combination of verbal signifies, in which the primary or direct meanings have been aesthetically deformed. Artistic work thus implies not only the possibility of creating a realm desired by the author, but also the possibility for an author to become there someone who in the real world the author could become not, although probably would wish to. The material examined in this article is the poems of Neznayka in Nikolay Nosov’s “The Adventures of Neznayka and his friends”.