The poetics of the novel "Das Ochsenfurter mannerquartet" in the context of the "Wurzburg trilogy" by Leongard Frank

The article is devoted to the experiments of Leonhard Frank with the artistic specificity of the novel "Das Ochsenfurter Mannerquartet" (1927). The novel is based on the artistic unity of realistic and expressionistic aesthetics, the correlation between the system of images and the projection of time, is determined by the genre variety of the novel form. In the context of the "Wurzburg Trilogy" by Leonhard Frank, the novel "Das Ochsenfurter Mannerquartet" develops the main author's ideas and artistic techniques, but demonstrates the evolution of the creative method of L. Frank and the complication of the author's picture of the world.