Образ Бийска в художественной литературе

Abstract

Статья посвящена изучению образа Бийска в художественной прозе русских писателей.

The article studies the image of Biysk in Russian works of fiction. The research methodology is based on works studying fiction texts about cities written by representatives of the Tartu-Moscow school and the geo-cultural and geo-poetical approaches. In general, the history of Biysk repeats the history of first Siberian cities. Initially, it was a fortress, fixing the shift of the borders of Russian territories to the East (since 1709). After 1846, the city ceased to be a military administrative center and became a place of political exile. At the same time, it turned into a commercial and industrial provincial city, lying on a strategically important trade route (Chuysky Tract). The analysis of fiction texts made it possible to identify and describe the main figurative models of the city: military prison, prison, city of mud, antithesis of the village, hell - paradise, and city-mediator. No single “core”, apart from the object of description, uniting this, rather small corpus of texts, has been found. Although zones of overlapping of semantic spheres have been outlined. A military jail and a mud city are equivalent as a battlefield of antagonistic forces.