The article is devoted to the study of the “Shakespearean text” by Yuri Dombrovsky from the standpoint of Bakhtin dialogism. Clarifies the concept of “Shakespearean text” refers to and analyzes “Shakespearean text” by Dombrovsky, including artistic works – a trilogy of novels about Shakespeare (“Dark Lady” “Second-highest quality bed”, “Royal Rescript”) and two chapters of the novel “Dark Lady” (“Queen” and “Count Essex”), originally entered into its composition, but later was published separately, as well as two scientific and critical articles – “‘RetlandBaconSouthamptonShakespeare’: about the myth, anti-myth and biographical hypothesis” and “To Italians about Shakespeare”. The study author states that “Shakespearean text” by Yuri Dombrovsky dominated themes of tyranny and government that does not want to hear the people, of censorship, depriving the artist’s freedom of expression and the role of the artist in an unfree society. Special attention is paid to the problem of interaction between Shakespeare and monologue-authoritarian society in the artistic world created by the writer. The author hypothesizes that in the trilogy of short stories about Shakespeare, Dombrovsky addressed such problems of the totalitarian regime as censorship, cruelty and despotism of power from a relatively “safe” distance – the age of Shakespeare. The author notes the presence of a special situation of double dialogue in “Shakespearean text” by Yuri Dombrovsky: the dialogue is conducted through the Shakespearean era with the contemporary writer’s reality, power and culture. The article proves the similarity of Dombrovsky as a biographical author with the Shakespeare he portrayed, and notes the presence of common features in both writers (sacralization of creativity, impulsive character, addiction to alcohol, epileptic seizures, etc.). The conducted research allows us to conclude that Dombrovsky, attempting a dialogue with the monologue-authoritarian power, finds a voice through art, like “his” Shakespeare. Dombrovsky connects the ways of solving the problem of the artist and power with art as the only way to build a dialogue in the conditions of totalitarianism – not so much with the authorities, who are not able to hear it, as with themselves.
The article deals with the problems of Soviet justice, reflected in the prose by Yury Dombrovsky. Based on historical information, the author examines how the prose by Yury Dombrovsky reflected such problematic aspects of Soviet justice in the 1930s as: politicization, lack of objectivity, baselessness of the accusation, etc.
The article is devoted to the study of the discourse of law and the discourse of power in the prose by Y.O. Dombrovsky. The authors have identified a number of aspects of law and power discourses in order to demonstrate how law and power, reproduced in the works by Y.O. Dombrovsky, can interact with socio-cultural realities. The study involved the axioms of law – fundamental legal principles that have developed because of centuries of law practice and have 7become statements that do not require proof. The analysis of a number of law axioms shows that in the totalitarian reality depicted by the author the law axiomatic is distorted, and fundamental legal laws cease to work. Attention was also drawn to the fact that court scenes are abstract in the prose by Y.O. Dombrovsky and the reasons for this absence are analyzed in the article. It was established that the court in his works can be depicted indirectly (through memories, protocols, etc.), but the hero himself does not participate in the court. In the controlled judicial system of the Stalinist period, the court disappears as an unnecessary instance, since the accused is guilty a priori. Due to the lack of a real advocateship in court, the arrested person can only defend himself if he makes a plea deal in order to get a shorter sentence. When studying the discourse of law and the discourse of power, we turned to the theory of speech genres by M. M. Bakhtin. We have identified and analyzed such genres of judicial and law discourse as the genre of interrogation, indictment, lawyer’s speech, arguments of the parties and protocol, as well as such imperative speech genres of power discourse as the genre of order, submission and possession. It was concluded that the characters by Y.O. Dombrovsky can oppose the ideas of stoicism to despotic power.
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