SENSORY IMAGE OF THE NORTH IN THE «KOLYMA NOTEBOOKS» BY V. SHALAMOV

Abstract

The article deals with the sensory image of the North in the collection of poems by V. Shalamov «Kolyma Notebooks». The relevance is due to the fact that in the light of the development of the synesthetic approach in literature, it becomes important to approach to the verbalization of bodily sensations and emotions in literary texts. Modern literary criticism is actively interested in the problems of introduction of sensorics into the structure of a literary work. The poetics of sensory as an independent scientific problem emerged relatively recently, so the study of sensory imagery in the lyrics of V. Shalamov is notable for its novelty and relevance. The article gives an idea of the sensory poetics of the «Kolyma Notebooks», reveals its most characteristic properties associated with the image of the North. The collection is associated with sensory categories, due to which the semantic space of the lyrical text is expanded, the information saturation of its semantic fragments is increased. The artistic language of Shalamov is distinguished by conciseness, simplicity of style, in the «poetic diary» the writer managed to convey sensory experiences, construct an artistic image of the northern space. During the immanent analysis of the writer’s lyrics, it was revealed that V. Shalamov creates the image of the North with the help of five sensory systems (vision, hearing and touch, less often – hearing and smell), which reveal the author’s attitude to the tragic experience of the Kolyma imprisonment. Sensory systems work to enrich the possibility of interpreting the northern space and in-depth representation of the reality created by the author in a lyrical work.