Visual aspects of the chronotope: “The Island of Israel” and “The Road to Israel” by A. Gorodnitsky

Abstract

The paper analyzes two works by A. Gorodnitsky – the poem “The Island of Israel” (1993) and the song “The Road to Israel” (2007), from the point of view of spatial and temporal organization, as well as visual imagery, with the help of which the artistic world of works is depicted. Thus, the main purpose of the article is to analyze the visual features of the Israel chronotope in the two designated works. For this, firstly, the space, time and visual imagery in the poem and in the song are analyzed in detail. Then observations and conclusions are systematized and compared with the audiovisual representation of these works in the film by A. Gorodnitsky and N. Kasperovich “Atlantes hold the sky” (episode 14). As a result, conclusions are drawn about the peculiarities of the visual organization of the chronotope of Israel in these poems by A. Gorodnitsky, based on the concept of the chronotope of M.M. Bakhtin. The visual chronotope is primarily made of space through which time is also visible, and therefore the chronotope as a whole. Other features of the chronotope are associated with the cyclical organization of time, the combination of the past and the future, as well as the real and imaginary world of the lyric subject.