The Role of Portrait in Disclosure of the Personal Crisis in the Novel by Louis-Ferdinand Céline “North”

Authors

  • Nataliia Shaparieva V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31861/pytlit2013.87.077

Keywords:

L.-F. Céline, portrait, image, static element, idea of war

Abstract

The purpose of this article is the research of the particularities and functions of portraiture in representing the psychological world of the heroes during the Second World War. So long as the creation of the hero image and representing of his inner world is the main mission of the writer, L.-F. Céline resorts to the description of appearance that reflects the psychological characteristics. In the Céline’s novel prevails the static element of portrait because natural and social features behold the paramount sense in creating the image system of the novel. By means of portraits the author transmits human suffering, draws the contrast between the outward form and the inner value of the heroes, underlines the social inequality. L.-F. Céline debunks as well the myth of the modern beauty that depreciates classic criteria. As a result the writer expresses his decadent attitude due to the moral and spiritual crisis of the society, because the heroes’ portraits mainly reveal aggression and groom. The artistic functions of the portrait are aimed at reflecting the world and men ugliness in the difficult socio-historical conditions of the Second World War times. The value of the article dedicated to L.-F. Céline consists in his considerable impact on the world literature of the XX century.

Author Biography

Nataliia Shaparieva, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University

Roman philology and translation department V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University Svobody sq., 4, 61022, Kharkiv, Ukraine

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Published

2013-09-03

How to Cite

Shaparieva, N. “The Role of Portrait in Disclosure of the Personal Crisis in the Novel by Louis-Ferdinand Céline ‘North’”. Pitannâ lìteraturoznavstva, no. 87, Sept. 2013, pp. 77-87, doi:10.31861/pytlit2013.87.077.

Issue

Section

Poetics