The Study of the Genre of Artistic Autobiography at the University (on the Example of the Novel by G.K. Belger “House of the Wanderer”)

Abstract

The article discusses the features of the study of autobiographical art works in in higher schooll on the example of the novel by G.K. Belger “House of the wanderer.” When analyzing this work in a university audience, one should take into account the fact that artistic autobiography exposes the episodes of a real autobiography to poetic processing and converts a specific reliable event into an artistic fact. If in autobiographical works, some writers describe everythin that happened around, others repel from inside spiritual existence and tie up to researchihg of own thoughts and souls, through this they try to reflect the sate of mankind in general. The article concludes that fiction autobiography is a special genre in literature. The author of the article believes that a work based on documentary facts from the life of its author, which turns into artistic images and becomes not only a subject, but also an object of the image, should be assigned to such a genre. The above literary propositions became the basis for the study of the novel by G.K. Belger “House of the wanderer” at the university. The methodological model of the analysis of the novel “The Wanderer’s House” involves identifying signs of autobiographical fiction at the level of plot, composition, chronotope, and system of images. In addition to the traditional analysis of the work, the students were offered a table that visually reflects the features of the genre nature of literary and artistic autobiography. 35 students of philological specialties took part in approbation of a technique in experimental pedagogical work. Key words: autobiography, artistry, documentary, genre, image, heuristic method, heuristic conversation, interactive lesson, a kind of analysis, G.K. Belger, “House of the Wanderer.”