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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Литературоведение. Журналистика</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2312-9220</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2312-9247</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">41910</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2312-9220-2024-29-3-482-490</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="edn">DZXZHQ</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>LITERARY CRITICISM</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Литературоведение</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">The concept of life in the late work of F.A. Iskander</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Концепт «жизнь» в позднем творчестве Ф.А. Искандера</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5353-8312</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Kirova</surname><given-names>Maria M.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Кирова</surname><given-names>Мария Михайловна</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>postgraduate student at the Department of Literary Theory, Faculty of Philology</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>аспирант кафедры теории литературы, филологический факультет</p></bio><email>mariakirova709@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Lomonosov Moscow State University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Московский государственный университет имени М.В. Ломоносова</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2024-12-10" publication-format="electronic"><day>10</day><month>12</month><year>2024</year></pub-date><volume>29</volume><issue>3</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en"/><issue-title xml:lang="ru"/><fpage>482</fpage><lpage>490</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2024-12-11"><day>11</day><month>12</month><year>2024</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2024, Kirova M.M.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2024, Кирова М.М.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2024</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Kirova M.M.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Кирова М.М.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/literary-criticism/article/view/41910">https://journals.rudn.ru/literary-criticism/article/view/41910</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The purpose of this article is to explore the concept of “life” as understood by F.A. Iskander and to explain the genre specificity of his later works through a content analysis of metaphorical structures in the collections of essays, notes, and short stories by the writer. If his earlier works are mostly collections of short stories and novel-in-short stories, then later in his career he turns to such genres as collections of essays and notes. The focus of this study will be on the collections “A little about a lot” and “From notebooks”, the essays “Stalin and Vuchetich”, “State and conscience”, “Poets and kings”, “Mozart and Salieri”, and “Reflections of a writer”, as well as the short story “The plot of existence”. Life is not contrasted with death, and Iskander does not insist on the triumph of the positive over the negative in his work. Through this research, the author will draw the following conclusions. In his later work, Iskander departs from the conceptual metaphor of “life as wholeness”. He argues that only the depiction of life through art or theory can be considered complete, while life itself is inherently fragmented. He believes that only ideas founded on humanistic principles can bring some harmony to the chaotic nature of life. The main feature of Iskander’s later writings is fragmentation, which is based on associative thinking.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>Целью данной статьи является раскрыть содержание концепта «жизнь» в понимании Ф.А. Искандера и объяснить жанровую специфику его поздних произведений посредством контент-анализа метафорических структур, представленных в собраниях записок, эссе и рассказов писателя. Если для ранних периодов его творчества наиболее характерны сборники рассказов и романы в новеллах, то в зрелом возрасте он обращается к таким жанрам, как собрания записок и эссе. Объект исследования - собрания записок «Понемногу о многом» и «Из записных книжек», эссе «Сталин и Вучетич», «Государство и совесть», «Поэты и цари», «Моцарт и Сальери», «Размышления писателя», а также рассказ «Сюжет существования». Жизнь не противопоставляется смерти, да и в целом Искандер больше не настаивает на победе положительного над отрицательным. В результате исследования автор приходит к следующим выводам. Искандер в своем позднем творчестве отходит от концептуальной метафоры «жизнь - цельность»: целостным может быть только изображение жизни в искусстве или в теории, но сама по себе жизнь фрагментарна. И только идеи, базирующиеся на принципах гуманизма, способны вернуть хаосу жизни некоторую гармонию. Фрагментарность, основанная на ассоциативности, составляет главное своеобразие поздних произведений писателя.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Iskander</kwd><kwd>life</kwd><kwd>concept</kwd><kwd>humanism</kwd><kwd>fragmentation</kwd><kwd>associativity</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>Искандер</kwd><kwd>концепт</kwd><kwd>жизнь</kwd><kwd>гуманизм</kwd><kwd>фрагментарность</kwd><kwd>ассоциативность</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="en">Antoniou, G.A., Antoniou, S.A., Georgiadis, G.S., &amp; Antoniou, A.I. (2012). A contemporary perspective of the first aphorism of Hippocrates. Journal of vascular surgery, 56(3), 866–868. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvs.2012.05.002</mixed-citation><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Выгон Н.С. Художественный мир прозы Ф. А. Искандера: дис. … канд. филол. наук: 10.01.02. 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