THE ART OF PROVOCATION: ON THE QUESTION OF INTERTEXTUAL CONNECTIONS OF THE NOVELS “THOUGHT” AND “MY NOTES” BY LEONID ANDREEV. ARTICLE ONE
The article is devoted to identifying the special nature of the pretextual nature of the story “Thought” and the posttextual nature of “My Notes”, based on the features of narrative and interpretative strategies of works in which the characters are burdened with an idea, and there is a crime “with a subtext” in the plot. The author of the article claims that the horizons of the author's thinking are set here by a provocative strategy, the purpose of which is to overcome the automatism of traditional ideas. In general, the defining specifics of Andreev's work, in addition to the experimental and provocative mode of thinking of the writer, are the analytical impulse (counting on the reflective reader), artistic structures in maximum proximity to the subjective and personal attitudes of the artist. The analysis of the intertextual connections of “Thoughts” and “My Notes” based on these aspects of Andreev's work, according to the author of the article, is able to give ideas about the beginnings and ways of developing those author's strategies that, as intellectual, experimental and provocative.