PORTRAIT AND CHARACTER OF “A SPECIAL PERSON” IN THE MEMOIR PROSE OF I. V. ODOEVTSEVA
The article analyzes the artistic manner of creating a portrait and character of a particular person through the memory of him/her and private meetings with him/her, through one’s personal sensory perception and the characteristic features of the era. The literary description of all material reflections of reality and their interpretation by the author-eyewitness are organically included in the memoir text. By using and comprehending a specific description, I. Odoevtseva reconstructs not only the life and work of a contemporary writer, but also an integral picture of the world. Memories and meetings push the genre boundaries of the text and turn it into a literary portrait. The creation of such an “elastic image” speaks of the writer’s striving for a variety of genre forms within the framework of memoir literature, of using one’s own artistic form of embodiment to express oneself. One of the typological features of I. Odoevtseva’s memoir prose is a different degree of biographical and factual components, whose interaction can be seen in the creation of portraits of the Silver Age contemporaries.