Artistic Functions of Landscape in Alexander Grin’s Early Prose (‘Reno Island’)
Journal: Вестник Пермского университета Российская и зарубежная филология
Year: 2021

This article explores the images of nature in Alexander Grin’s early works. The purpose of the study is to identify the semantic meanings and visual possibilities of the landscape in the prose written by Grin in the period from the late 1900s to the early 1910s. The material for analysis is Reno Island (1909), which is one of Grin’s representative prose works. Depiction of a landscape is one of the main means used by the writer to explore the themes permanently present in his reflections – those