The specifics of the materialization of the image in the poetic cycle “The Labyrinths of Echo” by Max Frei
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St Petersburg State University
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The article is devoted to the description of some aspects of Max Frei’s poetics. Both the features
of mass and non-mass literature are clearly expressed in the author’s work. In Frei’s prose
we see the interaction of different levels of the text. An analysis of the system of motives of the
cycle “Labyrinths of Echo” demonstrates a close connection between the style of characters’
speech and the plots of books. According to Frei’s artistic creation concept, already described
by the researchers, verbal and objective reality are equal in rights. As shown in the article, this
concept receives an artistic justification due to the fact that any idiom, joke, occasional play
on words can materialize in the of the depicted world. Two themes are particularly important in the structure of Max Frei’s artistic world. Firstly, we are talking about remarks that express
doubts about the human nature of the main character. Secondly, we are talking about remarks
in which the equality of books and life is postulated. These themes prepare the final plot twists
of the “Labyrinths of Echo”, due to which the postmodernist blurring of the boundaries between
textual and non-textual reality takes place.
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Baranov D. K. The specifics of the materialization of the image in the poetic cycle “The Labyrinths of Echo” by Max Frei. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature. 2024, 21 (3): 528–546. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2024.301 (In Russian)