The study of A.A. Grigoriev’s artistic prose opens up a unique experience of creative comprehension and interpretation of such important aspects of theatrical art of the mid19th century as the development of the characterology of the image, methods of visualization and sound presentation of the role, the stagecraft of the actor, methods of creating mise-en-scène, etc. It is especially significant for the period of formation and development of the Russian drama theater. Finding themselves in the zone of active creative reflection of a novice writer, theatrical plots and images are embodied on an intermedial basis: in a prosaic text, the image of a character
is theatrically isolated — marked with fixed theatrical gestures, posture, sound manifestations. The character is endowed with an emphatically theatrical line of behavior — thanks to which Grigoriev develops methods of psychologization and dramatization of the prosaic text. Such poetic dominants of A.A. Grigoriev’s artistic prose as the emotionality of the characters, their focus on experiences and relationships with others, also find themselvesin the field of active interaction
with theatrical principles and, as a result, acquire theatrically affected expression. As an expert and subtle connoisseur of theatrical art, A.A. Grigoriev already in his early work demonstrates an artistic example of genuine stagecraft, thereby laying the foundations for acting.
For citation: Pavlovskaya O.A. Theatrical stories and images in the fiction of A.A. Grigoriev, Ivanovo State University Bulletin, Series: Humanities, 2024, Special issue,
pp. 52—58.