The poetics of foreign language in I. S. Shmelev's story “Hassan and his Jeddi”

The article explores the genesis of the technique of stylization of foreign language in the poetics of I. S. Shmelev’s early prose based on the story “Hassan and his Jeddy”. Making a representative of the Turkish people the main character, the writer pays special attention to the peculiarity of his speech, which not only becomes the key to understanding Hassan’s character, but also diversifies the problematic of the writing. The comparison of the last lifetime edition of the story with the existent manuscript reveals the stages of literary work over a speech portrait of the hero-Turk at the phonographic and lexical-grammatical levels. The pronunciation defects introduced by the author into Hassan’s speech are non-systemic and inconsistent, that underlines the writer’s intention not to imitate the speech of a foreigner, but to create a speech portrait of the non-native speaker. The stylistic corrections spotted due to the comparative analysis, on the one hand, testify that Shmelev was honing his writing style, but on the other hand, they disclose the transformation of the ideological content of the story, in which the social component is getting weaker, while the philosophical one is getting stronger.