Discursive poetics and the crisis of narration

This brief paper presents an experience of considering some aspects of the relationship between discursive poetics and the crisis of narration. In this regard, special importance is attached to the research activities of Professor Arpad Kovacs, the developer of the theory and methodology of discursive poetics. Discursive poetics presupposes an integrative principle in its approach to literary texts. This means that any textual element should be theoretically discussed at the level of discourse, at which the symbolic, semantic and other innovations of the text are integrated. In this approach, the Bakhtin concept of “utterances” is used in the sense of discourse, i.e. as a supralingual and supra-speech term that indicates the “presentation of narration” and creates a new, unique language that comes to the place of the crisis of the narrative. The founder of the Budapest school of poetics and doctoral science puts forward one of his key theses - the need for a new naming and meaning, i.e. a written search for a word missing in speech, the result of which, the creative product, then becomes part of the general culture. The act of writing, according to Kovacs, is a way of acting different from the fabular, such an event that gives rise to the own, personal word of the subject of the text. Here the story of self-understanding is presented, a discourse is demonstrated aimed at understanding the meaning of life hidden in the main act of the hero. In order to more clearly demonstrate these provisions, in the article we resort to the works of Dostoevsky and Turgenev, on the basis of their analysis by the scientist.