Mariya V. Chistyakova, Senior Lecturer, Gorky Literature Institute, Tverskoy Boulevard, 25, 123104, Moscow, Russia.
The article examines N. Sadur’s receptive texts: “Pannochka” (1986) from the early period of creativity and “Falalei” (2015) from the late period. Both plays are based on romantic novels of the nineteenth century and are receptive texts. The playwright reinterprets classical images, saturates the content with new meanings. In the play “Pannochka”, retaining the main storyline of N.V. Gogol’s novella “Vii”, Sadur makes changes only in details and places accents differently. In the play “Falalei” the author feels more at ease, as she moves further away from the reference text, significantly changing the original plot and ending of the work. In Sadur’s plays there are signs of Romanticism as an artistic method: dual worlds, hierarchical worldview, herovictim, romantic fantasy, plastic reality, the motive of duality. An analysis of the plays shows that these plays are in different registers of pathos and differ in the degree of author’s freedom in the organization of the plot.
N. Sadur, modern Russian drama; postmodernism; receptive text; romanticism.
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Chistyakova, M.V. “The Elements of Romantic Poetics in Nina Sadur’s Drama”. Literaturovedcheskii zhurnal, no. 2(72), 2026, pp. 108–120. (In Russ.)
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