The artistic space in the fantastic story with the prerequisites of O.I. Senkovsky's fantasy "Satan's Big Exit"

The subject of the study is the spatial organization of O.I. Senkovsky's fantastic story "Satan's Big Exit". The object of the research is the artistic space in fantasy literature. The author examines in detail the features of the artistic space in such a genre of fantastic literature as fantasy, which begins its formation in the XIX century and has a direct impact on the formation of Russian fantastic prose. Special attention is paid to the types of artistic conventions (according to the classification of E.N. Kovtun), which set the specifics of the artistic space and define the genre variety of a literary work. E.N. Kovtun considers fantasy as one of the independent types of artistic conventions, along with rational (scientific) fiction, fairy tale, mythological, satirical and philosophical conventions that form the corresponding genre structures. Descriptive, comparative and analytical methods were used in the process of exploring the artistic space. Approaching the question of the specifics of the spatial organization of O.I. Senkovsky's fantastic story "Satan's Big Exit", we turned to structural, descriptive and comparative methods that allowed us to identify the heterogeneity and ambiguity of the genre of this work. The conducted research of the artistic space in the fantastic story of the XIX century allows us to talk about the heterogeneity of the genre varieties of Russian fantasy literature of the XIX century. In addition, the spatial organization of O.I. Senkovsky's novella "Satan's Big Exit" correlates with the spatial organization of works of the fantasy genre. Thus, the specificity of the artistic space of this work took a dominant place in the literature of subsequent eras. The main conclusions of the study are that the presence of a fantastic component determines the genre variety of the work; the features of the fantasy genre are embodied in the story of O.I. Senkovsky, influencing the plot and narrative of the work; the structure of the artistic space as a whole correlates with the structure of the fantastic space. In the organization of the artistic space, the functions of the artistic space, the basic techniques, the principle of two worlds, spatial oppositions formed by such traditional spatial images as home, antidom, path, road and border play an important role.

art space, fantasy, fantastic literature, Senkovsky, fantastic prose, Russian literature, spatial image, the functions of the art space, a fantastic element, varieties of fantasy