Felicitary meta-plot in the XIX century Russian literature

Abstract

The article deals with felicitary issues of the XIX century Russian literature reflected in the works of A.S. Pushkin, I.A. Goncharov, N.A. Nekrasov, A.P. Chekhov; it contextually touches the ways of embodying the theme of happiness in the works of a wider range of authors (L.N. Tolstoy, N.G. Chernyshevsky etc.). The system study of a felicitary paradigm of the Russian literature has long remained outside the view of researchers, which defines the relevance of this work. The goals and tasks of the study imply describing and analyzing figurativesemantic invariants, which are the most essential for a felicitary paradigm denoted in the artistic worlds of the above-mentioned writers. The study has enabled the authors to identify some key invariant oppositions and identities: rationality – irrationality of happiness; attainability – unattainability of happiness; happiness – rest; happiness – righteousness; happiness – conciliarism. The study leads to a conclusion that dialogic interreflections of these invariants defining various ways of interpreting a felicitary theme in the works of the XIX century Russian writers enable to consider the logic of its development as one of the meta-plots of the literature of that period. General logic of development of the very felicitary meta-plot in the contexts of the XIX century Russian literature defines its main vector as a movement between the poles of moral-psychological and existential-metaphysical explications.