TYPOLOGY OF MAGIC PLOT A.S. GREEN IN THE 1920s (“THE GRAY CAR”, “THE RATTED PICKER”, “FANDANGO”)

Abstract

The relevance of the article is due to the interest of modern literary criticism in non-realistic varieties of prose of the 20th century. Green’s artistic method, features of romanticism, symbolism and magical realism, as well as the correlation of the supernatural and the real in the text are synthesized. The most representative stories based on the inclusion of a magical component in the plots are studied: “The Gray Car”, “The Ratted Picker”, “Fandango”. Each of these stories uses motifs that are traditional for Russian magical prose of the 20th century: playing cards, images coming to life, the character’s struggle with werewolves, etc. The features repeated in magical stories include the exact mention of time and real place of action, oneiric states, mirroring, awakening, dual world, etc. The peculiarities of psychologism inherent in them are revealed in the stories. The article concludes that Green’s prose is characterized by a double motivation of events – psychological and magical.