Some Features of the Idiostyle of Dostoevsky, Platonov, Pelevin: Degree of Objectivity When Describing and Interpreting the Text
The article is devoted to understanding the author’s style in synchrony and diachrony and comparing the following three phenomena and their names: the precedent text, classics and postmodernism in the Russian language and literature. The phenomenon of Dostoevsky, Platonov and Pelevin allows us to solve the question of the styles of the epoch marked with ‘-isms’ and their relationship not as schematic as it is presented in the literary process. Styles do not follow each other in a strictly limited chronotope, but always exist here and now and are manifested in culture through the phenomenon of genius. In the aesthetics of postmodernism, it is the author’s genius that expands the boundaries of the familiar, and, rejecting the present, creates a new sample of style that is inevitably embedded in the tradition and gets a label: classicism, romanticism, realism, existentialism, modernism, formalism, structuralism, postmodernism, and so on. The illusion of alternation and development of styles of the epoch is created, subordinated to positive expediency, with characteristic semantic and expressive features. Negative expediency is not viable - it destroys everything around it and itself. The author chooses one or another expediency. Corpus comparative lexicography makes it possible not only to identify the features of the style of one or more authors, but also to form the perception of the text of different authors. This is expressed in the demonstration of unique features of style and language that may go unnoticed, but when identified, these features form an objective idea of the author’s style. Individual reader’s perception does not destroy the idea of the author’s unique style, but with a tendentious selection of illustrations, it can anticipate and form an ambiguous idea of the author’s ‘picture of the world’.