PICTURESQUE CONTEXT IN POETICS BOOKS BY I. A. GONCHAROV "PALLADA FRIGATE"
Problem and goal. In article the genre and style originality of the specified book which is expressed in an autoreflection, essayistic freedom of the letter, the need for active reader's perception, aspiration to connect personal experience with universal, etc. is considered. The round-the-world travel of Goncharov (1852-1855) and his perception of the western painting, in particular, in the center of attention - the comparative analysis of the pictures of Rembrandt which are stored in the Hermitage and the London national gallery became an empirical basis of a research. Methodology. The historical and comparative analysis and also the concept of dialogue of arts in the culture of the 18-19th centuries leaning on M. M. Bakhtin and V. S. Bibler's researches is the cornerstone of work. The genre and style analysis makes a start from M. N. Epstein's ideas about essayistic thinking and the concept of the philosophical prose of the 19th century revealing in A. E. Yeremeyev, E. A. Akelkina, M. S. Stern 's works. Results. In article the picturesque style of prose of I. A. Goncharov, poetics of «a free word», default reception, the author's support on activity of consciousness of the reader is analysed. Conclusions. The book by I.A. Goncharov «Pallada Frigate» opens wide cultural, including picturesque, the context creating an allyuzivny background thanks to which the reader plunges into the creative atmosphere of a travel of the writer and his reflection about human nature, about art, about history. Search of complete consciousness is key in the book by I.A. Goncharov opening an art originality of philosophical prose.