Polyphony of ideological, thematic, and motif-image system in modern texts: the novels of M. Shishkin and V. Sharov

The article provides a detailed analysis of the ideological, thematic, and motif-image system of M. Shishkin’s The Letterbook and V. Sharov’s Return to Egypt from the point of view of a polyphonic vision of artistic reality. We consider the conceptual component of both works, means of dialogizing the ideological field of the texts, as well as means of reflecting the authors’ point of view in the diegetic space of novels. Based on our analysis of the texts, we conclude that behind the thematic dissimilarity of the analyzed works is the commonality of the ideological structure, characterized by a rhizomatic plurality of images, motifs, and symbols, which in one way or another close at some point. The conceptual space of M. Shishkin’s The Letterbook is organized through a dialogue between the ideas of natural and verbal resurrection, embodied in polar, explicitly un-related images and motifs. Comparison showed the fundamental importance of the ideological polyphony in V. Sharov’s Return to Egypt, in which the main intention of the author is to represent characters’ points of view. We conclude that at present, ideological polyphony is developing in tandem with monologue vision.