Записная книжка писателя и литература постмодернизма: точки сближения

Abstract

The article begins with a brief characteristic of the writer’s notebook as a special text type. Then the article analyzes structural and compositional features that notebooks of the XIX and XX centuries have in common with postmodernist prose. These features include: a) the fragmentary narration; the chaotic composition; many syntactic and semantic ellipses; b) the absence of one main idea and a big role of chance in the creative process; c) an opportunity to read a text from any place, even from the end; d) a great number of intertextual links; the similarity to a hypertext; e) no stylistic and thematic limitations etc. There are three possible explanations of these points of convergence: a psychological, a linguistic and a historical-literary one.