DIVERGENT THINKING AND AUTHORIAL INTENTION IN THE NOVEL "THE NOISE OF TIME" BY JULIAN BARNES
Determining the author's position in modern socio-psychological prose is a complicated theoretical problem. The article solves it based on the novel “The Noise of Time” by Julian Barnes, which combines biographical authenticity and strategic ideology associated with the phenomenon of socialist culture, personified by D. Shostakovich. In the conditions of the lack of social freedom, the tragedy of creative consciousness determines the dynamics of the genre form and the specifics of the protagonist. The work acquires multiple temporality, images of constriction and symbols of fear, indicating the value orientation of the writer's position. The authorial intention appears as the communicative purpose of Barnes, who devotes much attention to the Russian theme in his work. The psychological reconstruction of the “genuine” Shostakovich determines the specific character of the divergence of the author’s thinking, which is reflected in the structure of the novel and the peculiarities of the protagonist’s internal dialogue with himself and his time. However, the mythological path of interpreting “red Beethoven” together with the historical and political content of the Soviet era creates a “noise of interpretations”, rather than a “silence of discoveries”. Stereotypical intentional positions lead to the systemic repeatability of artistic clichés and the uniformity of views on actual reality. Artistic ontology, as evidenced by the experience of Russian classics, is primarily based on the existence of man in the world, not in society, which is confirmed by the creative fate of the great Russian composer.