Журнал «Филоlogos»

SILENCE IN THE FIGURATIVE SYSTEM OF S. YUZEEV'S STORY "DRAFT OF SILENCE"

Author: Syryseva D.Yu.

In contemporary scientific research, various problems are considered, one way or another related to the expression of silence, quiet, hush in such arts as painting, music, cinema, literature. In the works of the contemporary Tatar writer, journalist and filmmaker Salavat Yuzeev (the novel "Don't interrupt the dead", the story "Draft of Silence", the story "About those who are not there") the image of silence has extensive semantics and is embodied in various forms: it can be silence in nature, when the voice of other worlds becomes available to the hero, an ominous silence, foreshadowing a catastrophe, a conscious strategy of human behavior, to whom the internal causes of what is happening are revealed. The article analyzes in the selected aspect the story by Salavat Yuzeev "Draft of Silence", in which this image becomes one of the ways of knowing the truth for the heroes and the author himself. Moreover, this process is shown as continuous, although not accessible to everyone, it unfolds both within the framework of the “contemporary” plot, and in the legendary historical perspective, motivated by the presence of “text in the text”. The image of silence in the story seems ambivalent: it is associated with the bright principles of life (the search for truth, the writer's work, folk legends about the majestic past, memory) and the contradictory, dangerous world of reality (oblivion of moral values, distortion of time, connection with the world of the dead). However, it is the "Draft of Silence" that is included in the title, an image that, as can be assumed, more adequately conveys the state of the modern world and man. The poem of Silence remains a writer's fantasy, an unattainable, almost lost ideal. What looks majestic in the plane of myth or the writer's fantasy, in modern reality is tragic and unclaimed. The concept and image of silence are explored in the article both at the level of macropoetics (compositional structure ''text in text'') and at the level of micropoetics (leitmotiv structure) of Yuzeev's story, the influence of oriental narrative discourse (oriental framed story) on the stylistics and imagery of the work is examined.