THE MOTIVE OF WORLD DUALITY IN THE NOVELS OF V.F. ODOEVSKY ("OPERE DEL CAVALIERE GIAMBATTISTA PIRANESI", "SYLPH", "COSMORAMA")
This article examines the semantic content of the motive of the duality in the works of V.F. Odoevsky as an expression of the writer's worldview. The aim of the article is to find and note the similarities and differences in the implementation of this motif in the novels under consideration. The object of the analysis in this article is the images of the heroes-madmen, who are united by a common psychology of obsession with their idea, reflected in the works of the late 1830s - early 40s. Odoevsky contrasts the real and otherworldly worlds and, presenting the motive of the two worlds through the prism of creative madness, reflects on the meaning, principles and tasks of art. An important place in the poetics of the studied works is occupied by mystical elements embodied in the symbolism of color and light, sleep, borderline state, in the use of the principles of contrast, enclosed space, etc. The article emphasizes that it is the motives of sleep and the painful state that are used by the writer as guides to the other world. This blurs the line between the real and the unreal, which determines the style of the novels. The article indicates that the work of the Russian writer was undoubtedly influenced by the mystical and philosophical ideas of E.T.A. Hoffman.