Ecphrasis in the story of A.S. Pushkin “The station inspector”
Abstract
The article is devoted to the study of ecphrasis in the story of A.S. Pushkin “The station inspector”. It is argued that today the study of ecphrasis is one of the most relevant areas of such sciences as philology and art history. The analysis of studies devoted to ecphrasis in Pushkin's creativity allows us to conclude that Pushkin often used ecphrasis in his texts in order to solve ideological and stylistic problems. It is proved that the analysis of the role of ekphrasis, presented in the story “The station inspector” by the description of four German pictures about the prodigal son, can lead the reader to the most adequate interpretation of Pushkin's ambiguous work. The author of the article offers a new view at the role of ecphrasis in the story. А comparative analysis of the story of the prodigal son depicted in the pictures is carried out with the story of the main heroine of the work and it is concluded that, having turned through ecphrasis to the gospel parable of the prodigal son, Pushkin in the work “The station inspector” gave his own version of this parable (in the text – the parable of the prodigal daughter), the most organic for Easter, Orthodox culture.
About the Author
O. Yu. Zolotuhina
Dmitry Hvorostovsky Siberian State Academy of Arts
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Olesya Yu. Zolotuhina, Cand. Sc. (Philology), Associate Professor at the Department of Social Sciences and History of Arts
Krasnoyarsk, 660049
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Zolotuhina O.Yu. Ecphrasis in the story of A.S. Pushkin “The station inspector”. ARTE. 2021;(3):114-127. (In Russ.)
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