Linguocultural aspects of the attribution of a literary text (based on the material of "A Novel with Cocaine")

Abstract

The object of this study is the linguocultural aspects of the attribution of a literary text, while the subject is the system of discourses through which they are realized, creating a real or imaginary image of its author. The research is conducted on the material of the text "A Novel with Cocaine," whose authorship has not yet been fully established. The aim of the study is to establish a connection between the linguocultural features of this novel and the presumed authorship of three contenders for it. The work examines in detail the system of discourses in this work, through which a real or imaginary image of the presumed author can be formed. Special attention is paid to the interrelationship between language markers that "reveal" its author(s) (features of vocabulary, syntax, figurative-expressive means, architecture, etc.) and the identification of culturally significant details: the realities of the era, autobiographical elements, the author's mentality, and the cultural codes of their environment. The following methods are employed in the study: descriptive, discourse analysis, linguocultural, autobiographical, semantic, and interpretative analysis. The scientific novelty lies in the fact that the work directly investigates the connection between linguocultural studies and the attribution of a literary text for the first time, where the attributed text is viewed as a holistic unity of language and culture, containing "traces" of its author, making it possible to judge them as a real person. The main conclusions of the study are that, firstly, "A Novel with Cocaine" is the quintessence of the "literary war" that took place at the turn of the 1920s and 1930s between V. Nabokov and his literary opponents, and secondly, this work, in the person of the main contender for its authorship, V. S. Yanovsky, represents a creative manifesto of the "unnoticed generation," demonstrating the ability to write in a beautiful classical literary tradition, which he was often criticized for neglecting.