A Study on Tatyana Tolstaya's Rendezvous with Bird

Haenggyu Choi

doi:10.21049/ccs.2015.41..415

@article{ART002066803},
author={Haenggyu Choi},
title={A Study on Tatyana Tolstaya's Rendezvous with Bird},
journal={Cross-Cultural Studies},
issn={1598-0685},
year={2015},
volume={41},
pages={415-442},
doi={10.21049/ccs.2015.41..415}

TY - JOUR
AU - Haenggyu Choi
TI - A Study on Tatyana Tolstaya's Rendezvous with Bird
JO - Cross-Cultural Studies
PY - 2015
VL - 41
IS - null
PB - Center for Cross Culture Studies
SP - 415
EP - 442
SN - 1598-0685
AB - Through the comparison of "Rendezvous with a Bird" with "Araby", there were found to be well-explained psychological causes of the boy’s (Petya) behavior that closely discloses the concrete object of desperation and definitely confirmed the internal causes of heroes (vanity of the boys in "Araby" and "Rendezvous with bird"). Through the comparison of "Rendezvous with a Bird" with "A man in a boat" we also knew that Petya's indefinite fear of death was to some extent a sense of guilt. This study contains a full-scale review of Russian contemporary writer Tatyana Tolstaya's short story "Rendezvous with a Bird", which is one of the her earliest works. As many critics indicate, the works of Tatyana Tolstaya resonate with metaphor. "Rendezvous with a bird" plays an important role in understanding this metaphoric tendency. In order to understand the metaphoric tendency of her works we need our own reading strategy, and so we inquired into the grasp of the main motifs. Analysis of the main motifs can start from the understanding of meanings of the very figurative title 'Rendezvous with a Bird’. To understand the meanings of the title, we first of all analyzed the incidents of actual or figurative meetings with birds in this work, and through this we deduced two main motifs. We confirmed one main motif of 'desperation', which centers on the love of a young boy and woman. We confirmed the other motif as 'death', which developed into the rendezvous of the grandfather with inevitable death. Thus, the 'desperation' and 'death' with which we meet in childhood becomes a subject matter for the writer. To understand the deeper meanings of these main motifs, we compared "Rendezvous with Bird" with the short story "Araby" by James Joyce and with the short story "A man in a boat" by Eyvind Johnson, which very successfully deal with the motifs: 'desperation' and 'death'.
KW - motif;desperation;death;metaphor;Rendezvous with bird;araby;A Man in a Boat
DO - 10.21049/ccs.2015.41..415
ER -

Haenggyu Choi. (2015). A Study on Tatyana Tolstaya's Rendezvous with Bird. Cross-Cultural Studies, 41, 415-442.

Haenggyu Choi. 2015, "A Study on Tatyana Tolstaya's Rendezvous with Bird", Cross-Cultural Studies, vol.41, pp.415-442. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2015.41..415

Haenggyu Choi "A Study on Tatyana Tolstaya's Rendezvous with Bird" Cross-Cultural Studies 41 pp.415-442 (2015) : 415.

Haenggyu Choi. A Study on Tatyana Tolstaya's Rendezvous with Bird. 2015; 41 415-442. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2015.41..415

Haenggyu Choi. "A Study on Tatyana Tolstaya's Rendezvous with Bird" Cross-Cultural Studies 41(2015) : 415-442.doi: 10.21049/ccs.2015.41..415

Haenggyu Choi. A Study on Tatyana Tolstaya's Rendezvous with Bird. Cross-Cultural Studies, 41, 415-442. doi: 10.21049/ccs.2015.41..415

Haenggyu Choi. A Study on Tatyana Tolstaya's Rendezvous with Bird. Cross-Cultural Studies. 2015; 41 415-442. doi: 10.21049/ccs.2015.41..415

Haenggyu Choi. A Study on Tatyana Tolstaya's Rendezvous with Bird. 2015; 41 415-442. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2015.41..415

Haenggyu Choi. "A Study on Tatyana Tolstaya's Rendezvous with Bird" Cross-Cultural Studies 41(2015) : 415-442.doi: 10.21049/ccs.2015.41..415

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