| Abstract [eng] |
The fiction of one of the most famous creators of realistic prose in the 19th century Ivan Goncharov (1812–1891) is characterised by the constant return to the body, its experiences in the living world. In the writer’s novels, the body occurs as an inseparable part of the world which is being perceived and experienced by that body. In the world experienced and perceived by us, the body exists and manifests itself as a spatial body. Sensual possibilities of the body that takes part in perception and experiencing of the world, are being disclosed and formed in space, the existential experience of the subjects is being revealed. In Goncharov’s novels, exceptional attention is paid to the space of home where a garden is given a specific role. In this space, there is nothing that could be treated as the lack or excess of something that violates the harmonious unit of nature. Here, everything serves for embracing the subject, giving one the feeling of security and comfort. In the garden space, the link between the feeling and the felt, the perceiving and the perceived is to be started; it ensures the proceeding, involves the subject into the reciprocal and productive dialogue with the world allowing the individual to create one’s social and bodily identity. Despite closeness of natural space, as well as openness of the natural world to man, personal relations of a man usually face crisis. The space of a forest is found and mastered as an alternative to the space of garden and home, when the presence of the body in a natural space and its contact with objects filling it in cannot ensure the full-fledged existence anymore. Entering the space of the forest always marks a new stage in the history of selfformation of the body as a socio- cultural construct. Transition into a new perceptual fi eld opens the body for new experiences, new “inscriptions” in the process of construction of personal identity. |
