Information about the author:

Abstract:

This article analyses A. Vampilov’s two-part comedy “Provincial Anecdotes” as a continuation of Gogol’s comedic tradition in 20^th-century Russian literature. It makes use of the description of N. Gogol’s poetics by the outstanding literary historian and Gogol scholar Y. Mann. The similarities between the works of Vampilov and Gogol include symbolically meaningful names of characters, the “illusoriness” of plot lines, the musical interweaving of motifs (for example, angelic and diabolical), the love for depicting urban provincial space, and the ability to see comic elements even in everyday trifles. Different elements of Vampilov’s artistic world are also singled out: the special “station” chronotope, the “taiga” layer of mythotectonics, the importance of water motifs, “river” onomastics (Kamaev, Anchugin), etc.