Journey to Arzrum by A. S. Pushkin: "The Case of the Kalmyk Woman" in the Aspect of De-Romanticization and Auto-Communication

The article examines the specifics of A. S. Pushkin's "creative laboratory" based on the material of the documentary travelogue Journey to Arzrum. The novelty of the research is the identification of ways to construct a plot situation in a documentary travelogue in the aspect of the author's problem. The plot situation "the case of the Kalmyk woman" is used as a material for analysis from the point of view of discovering ways to fictionalize documentary material, namely de-romanticization and auto-communication. Using the comparative method of analysis - comparing the "Caucasian diary" of 1829 and the final version - Journey to Arzrum of 1836 - allows us to see a number of significant changes in the description of the "Kalmyk case". The inclusion of the Kalmyk episode in the literary context also reveals a connection with the tradition of sentimentalism, the plot situation of the "Lisa's text", as well as its romantic variants. The revealed narrative experiments reveal a special author's reflection on the process of text generation, and on the general literary context (sentimental-romantic tradition), and on his works written before 1829, become markers of the evolution of Pushkin's work, de-romanticization, self-irony and parody, express the transition to realism, the tendency to prose.