2019, Volume 16, Issue 2
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Lyudmila N. Ikityan A Legitimate Error: On One Surname in the Works of Leonid Andreev
Voprosy onomastiki, 2019, Volume 16, Issue 2, pp. 199–212 (in Russian) Received 26 January 2018 Abstract: The paper aims to substantiate/refute the implications behind the title character’s name of Leonid Andreev’s first novel Sashka Zhegulev, pertaining to some pronunciation and spelling allusions it suggests. The controversy arises from the alleged explicit reference to the toponym Zhiguli Mountains, with the inherent historical, cultural, and connotative marking. The author proves the fallacy of this approach that contradicts the whole concept of the novel, its main symbolism, and a number of textual facts, which cumulatively provide the evidence for the research. The latter is added up by linguocultural data and self-intertextual references to the writer’s early unfinished play. Concurrently, the article contains some general provisions on character naming in Andreev’s works (particularly, the use of speaking names, initial abbreviations, and elliptical “zero-structures”). The novel in question features a name change to the main character — as Sasha Pogodin becomes Sashka Zhegulev — which appears a fullpotent literary device when the latter form is put to the title. As the study suggests, the surname Zhegulev is brought by a number of phonetic-accentological and lexical-semantic (essentially dialectological) factors. The contextual analysis reveals a link to Andreev’s early literary attempts (sketches of the drama Zhekulin) and helps to establish the sequence of the onym’s formation: Zhekúlin — Zhegúlin — Zhegúlev — Zhégulev. The form Zhegulióv proves incorrect even with regard to the text itself and one fragment in particular when cited in accordance with the authentic “sounding” (positional changes of the sounds) that allows for the only option — Zhégulev. The author argues that decoding and interpreting the semantics of literary proper names requires attending to the pragmatics of the author, so as to avoid the trivial and thereby superficial associations which turn out persistently misleading both for the regular readers and the representatives of the academic community. Keywords: naming in literature, literary onomastics, proper name, the poetics of the proper name, name change as a literary device, name (title) of a literary work, Leonid Andreev, Sashka Zhegulev. References Fedosyuk, Yu. A. (2011). Russkie familii. Populiarnyi etimologicheskii slovar’ [Russian Surnames. A Popular Etymological Dictionary]. Moscow: Flinta; Nauka. Fomin, A. A. (2004). Literaturnaia onomastika v Rossii: itogi i perspektivy [Literary Onomastics in Russia: Results and Perspectives]. Voprosy onomastiki, 1, 108–120. Glushchenko, T. A. (2006). 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