DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE INTELLIGENTSIA AND THE PEOPLE IN L.I. BORODIN’S STORY “ONCE UPON A VACATION”

Abstract

The article examines L.I. Borodin’s story “Once Upon a Vacation” from the point of view of the nature of the dialogue. The objective of the study is to analyze the specifics of the dialogue, to determine its role in revealing the narrator’s worldview. The method of holistic text analysis is used. The study leads us to the following conclusions. The conversation of the characters can be attributed to “internal communication”: this scene is played out in the narrator’s imagination, and therefore expresses his perception of the situation, his desire to eliminate the contradiction in his own attitude to what is happening. The image of the second participant in the dialogue is not objective for the same reason: the reader sees this character the way the narrator imagines him. The image of the interlocutor changes throughout the dialogue, which is associated with his function. At the beginning of the conversation, this character personifies a person close to culture, philosophical issues, since the narrator projects his own worldview onto this image. Then the interlocutor personifies the narrator’s idea of a simple villager.