Журнал «Филоlogos»

TIME AND ETERNITY IN B. ZAITSEV'S EARLY STORIES

Author: Lomakina S.A.

The article deals with the key images of eternity in the early works of Boris Zaitsev. Particular attention is paid to the category of time, which performs a psychological function, contributes to the disclosure of internal state of the heroes under the influence of external factors. Bright emotional content of his works, which often lacks the usual plot development, is created by the mood of the hero or narrator and allows to deeply understand everything that happens in the world and around the hero. Zaytsev uses a special rhythm of narration, depicting the world that exists only in the perception of a particular person, trying to penetrate it, to comprehend with the help of internal and external time. Zaytsev creates a cyclical concept of time, which links the human world and the natural world in a calendar circle of uninterrupted alternation of day and night and seasons. It is this unity that allows us to speak of the integrity of Zaitsev's artistic world. The leading way of moving to Eternity in the writer becomes a simple sensual impression, emotions. The study leads us to the conclusion that when the author reflects on Eternity, he first of all draws the reader's attention to a state which can never come to an end (falling in love or waiting). Secondly, on actions which will be performed in the distant future, but which will remain in memory, will be preserved for the future. Zaitsev constructs a chain of emotional states of the hero or narrator, from which the work itself is constructed - from the moment of self-awareness in the stream of individual and collective calendar time to the moment of the decision of the problem of determining the path of the future - the everyday life or the "eternal". Through the merging with nature, the heroes, as a rule, find peace and come to comprehend the supreme law of the universe. The category of time contributes to a variety of themes and motifs in the texts of Zaitsev: dreams of happiness, meditations on the meaning of human life, thoughts about death, memories of the past, planning the future.