THE ROLE OF THE ARTISTIC DETAIL IN DONNA TARTT’S NOVEL «THE GOLDFINCH»
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.24919/2411-4758.2019.177913Keywords:
psychologism; narrator; visual and auditory detail; critical state; «in succession to the author» way of analysis; artistic time and space.Abstract
«The Goldfi nch» is a story of a boy and later an adult male Theodore Decker who accidentally obtains a masterpiece. The writer, as a surgeon, separates one second of expectation from the other, detail from detail. The reader is presented not just a frightened child but deep sorrow of the loss of the whole world. In the second chapter of the fi rst part D.Tartt reveals herself as a skillful psychologist, skillfully a ccustoms herself to the inner state of the main character, with him she travels through the memories, tracks associative relationships he makes. The writer brilliantly follows all defense mechanisms of a man who is faced with the inevitability. The author uses gradation way of describing while stringing visual and auditory details, retards artistic time. The writing of D. Tartt is characterized by the unique skill in the detail describing. The role of artistic detail in the process of inner state depicting is investigated. The author touches upon the problem of the depicting of critical situation in the novel. The attention is paid to the writer’s skills in showing main character’s feelings, memoirs, thoughts, associative relations and human nocifensor in critical situations. It is admitted that in case of such temporal and space detail the most suitable way of analysis is «in succession to the author».
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