Ярмарок – торг – обмін як фрейм просторового пограниччя (М. Гоголь – Г. Квітка-Основ’яненко)

Abstract

A fair is a successful demonstration form of the translation of social experience, tradition, customary rules in the form of collective action. A fair is an all-public public action with the representation of the symbolic symbolic series of culture, the era, and society. The presence of fairs in the literature of a certain age is not accidental. Of great importance are the frequency of using fair imagery and the introduction of text structures of various trading models. In various epochs, their semantic load is distributed in relation to the general cultural thesaurus; that is, the system of ideas, concepts, national priorities, orientations, and developmental perspectives. In the first half of the 19th century, the statistics of the literary descriptions of the fair considerably exceeds other periods with quali- tatively different accents of this topic. Given the significance of the fair in the works of M. Gogol, V. Narizhniy, M. Pogodin, G. Kvitka-Osnovyanenko, E. Grebinki, V. Sollogub, etc., it seems expedient to emphasize the modernity of its nature, a radical change in relations between the subject and the object, or between the subject and the predicate; that is, the statement about this subject, its semantic definition. In other words, denotation gives way to a more virtual, fictitious relationship between the participants (subjects) of the fair and its objects. An opening gallery of fairs as an embodiment of two-vector-oriented culture is M. Gogol’s “Sorochinsky Fair” (1831), in which he allegedly programmed the further reception of this image, its importance, and recognizability. Indeed, Gogol creates a fair not on the plane of narrative, but as a field for experiment, and the space of various communicative discourses of pragmatic orientation. Therefore, literary, verbal-mimetic serves here as a powerful tool for constructing a spectacular dramatic action with many acts, scenes, and microscales, genre pictures, and anecdotal inserts. The effect of suggestive images facilitates a meeting of human life with the world through experience, communication, knowledge, and the discovery of unfamiliar spheres.