The Genre System of the “Japanese” Works of Venedict Mart of the Early Period
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22135342 |
|---|---|
| Authors | K A Zemlyanskaya (Amur State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 71-84 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Theory of Literary Plot and Narratology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2410-7883 • E-ISSN: 2713-3133 |
| Publisher | Novosibirsk State University (NSU) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.25205/2713-3133-2024-2-71-84 |
| OpenAlex | W4400359027 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
The prose and poetry of the Far Eastern writer Venedikt Mart provides vivid examples of works in which the writer artistically comprehends the frontier reality of the first decades of the 20th century culture and life of various peoples of the Far East. The personality of the writer Venedikt Mart (1896–1937) included a joyful childhood on the periphery of the Russian Empire, upbringing in the family of a famous coastal local historian, participation in the cultural life of Vladivostok and Harbin in the 20s, and the desire to integrate into Soviet literature. Today, the rich creative heritage of Venedikt Mart is beginning to return to the Russian reader. The writer’s “Japanese” works still remain unexplored. The article presents a genre analysis of Venedikt Mart's works related to Japan and the Japanese in the early (Vladivostok) period of creativity. At the time of modernist searches, certain genres of classical Japanese literature – tanka, haiku, zuihitsu, kaidan – become organic for a writer in understanding the Japanese theme. Mart is sensitive to changes in contemporary Japanese literature, in which there is a modernization of classical genres, combining interest in the East with close attention to the artistic discoveries of Russian literature of the early 20th century. In addition to following the stylistic principles of a particular genre, the writer observes the leading aesthetic principle of Japanese literature – mono no aware. Mastering the Japanese genre system, understanding the aesthetics of the Japanese view of the world and comprehending it through the means of fiction become a way for the writer to get used to the world of a foreign culture and form his own style. This is how his unique image of perceiving Japan is formed – through metaliterary reception
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |