V.F. Odoevskys novel «the Russian nights» in the aspect of intermediality analysis

The poetics of the novel "Russian nights" by V.F. Odoevsky is considered in the aspect of intermedialanalysis in the article. The basic layers of interaction of graphic, musical and verbal arts within the art text at the levels of incorporationof images and the transformation structure of forming principles are allocated. The assumption about the intermedial nature of thenovel is made. The fine arts are presented in the novel by the images of artists (architects, engravers, painters), by interpretation of theexisting and imaginary pictures (picturesque cloths, engravings, portraits), by motives of the fine art. Images of great artists and architects(Piranesi, Michelangelo, Raphael, Bryullov) build the author's concept of creative process as difficult spiritual work of a true artist.The description of the invented and real artefacts in the novel functions as reality modelling (interpretations of K. Bryullov's works) andplot forming, as an existential portal (interpretations of engravings of an unknown artist, a short story "Opеre del Cavaliеre CiambattistaPiranesi"). The ideas presented in the images of the fine arts, develop in the art of music; and the musical code dominates in the novel(music as a leitmotif of the narration). The author of the novel addresses to images of great musicians (L. Beethoven, I.S. Bach,V.A. Mozart, J. Haydn, etc.), which reflect his ideal notion about the creator, about creative process, about real art as a whole. A considerablelayer in the "Russian nights" is formed by intermedial pieces of music (mention of compositions of well-known composers, musicalinterpretation of the imaginary and real creations), which serve as a means of creation of the image of characters and definition ofthe emotional mood of the narration. The correlation of the composition of the "Russian nights" with the logic of a musical fugue constructionallows speaking about the principle of musical world model, which is realised in the novel. Besides, music receives the metalanguagestatus: V. Odoevsky transfers inspiration, process of creation of a work of art by means of musical concepts and terms. As awhole, the character of correlation of musical, pictorial and verbal art in his "Russian nights" V.F. Odoevsky сonfirms the assumptionabout the intermedial character of interaction of these three kinds of art. It states the importance of the "Russian nights" in the system ofmodern consideration of the problem of arts synthesis, and also specifies the perspectives of research of the aesthetics and the art heritageof Russian romanticism in connection with the problem of intermediality.

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