Article

Name: Everyday Life in Dmitry Gorchev’s Novel “Life without Carlo”

Authors: Kseniya A. Vorotyntseva

Newspaper “Culture”, Moscow, Russian Federation

Abstract: The article deals with the analysis of everyday life in Dmitry Gorchev’s novel “Life without Carlo”. Gorchev’s main character is autobiographical: this is a private person, a “downshifter”, who opposes society, abandons city life and moves to the coun-try. At the same time, this character has a lyrical dimension: the whole texture of the novel is a kind of interweaving of narrative and lyrical discourses. The prevalence of narrative eventfulness is typical of the episodes connected with the main character’s memories marked as “Other life”: it includes mainly service in the army and work at an office. Besides, as a rule, it is lyrical eventfulness that is realized in the episodes connected with his “present” – with country life. From the narratological point of view these episodes often appear eventless – everything is repeated again here and the characters exist in the situation of “eternal return”. However, existential(lyrical) events connecting private life with universum are of particular importance. As a result, due to the narration lyrization, daily routine in the novel tends to the “sacralized” invariant.

Keywords: lyrics, lyrical motif, narrative, everyday life, novel, event, network literature, modern Russian prose

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