MOSAIC COMPOSITION IN L.E. ULITSKAYA’s NOVEL “DANIEL STEIN, INTERPRETER”

Abstract

The article studies the plot structure, character system and compositional features of the L.E. Ulitskaya’s novel "Daniel Stein, Interpreter", which contains various archive materials, as well as the writer’s own letters to her friend, and analyses the main compositional units of this novel which use separate paragraphs as individual chapters and their chronological order. The writer’s logic of montage editing in the novel, which has not been analyzed sufficiently before, is studied as well. Mosaicism is an important compositional feature of the novel. This feature is due to the narrative polyphony and montage editing, and is reflected in the arrangement of a large number of chapters, the formation of the character system and various plot lines. The writer organically arranges separate texts in the work, so that various stories concerning the life and fate of the protagonist and other characters are unfolded parallelly. L.E. Ulitskaya’s personal letters to her friend, which connect the reality and the art world not only perform a structure function, but also explain stages of the creative process that the writer went though, and reduce the distance between writer and readers.