The motives of “the notes of an eyewitness” in the Nina Pavlova’s prose

Abstract

The paper explores a poetics of the today book of a new type of organization. It shapes an image of a fundamentally ordered universe. The book by Nina Pavlova “Michaelmas day: The notes of an eyewitness” consists of stories, united with the principle of installation (montage). Installation construction corresponds to the vision of the world, marked with diversity and epic breadth. The unifying role is played by a number of motives. The combination of motives shows deep connections of the phenomena. Each of the motives is represented by a set of meanings and senses. That allows to design the picture in its entirety.

Thе paper considers motives of the obedience, disobedience, ignorance. The obedience transforms heroes or becomes a condition for favorable events, including supernatural. The character’s misfortune could be explained by the disobedience, as desire to play someone else’s, not his or her role. The ignorance (non-awareness) leads to a false understanding of the world order, observance of ridiculous customs, and destructive actions. The new book may not meet expectations of an audience focused on the art of the modernism or the postmodernism. It is dominated by the perception of life as priceless gift from above and of any person in his or her all original properties.