![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The inclusion of his own technical developments by Platonov in this story introduces an element of scientific autobiography. The focus on the addressee, declared at the beginning of “The Impossible”, activates its communicative function. In a certain perspective, this work can indeed be read as a publicistic article containing the author’s reflection on philosophical, scientific concepts in the specific manner of Platonov, with overstepping beyond the boundaries of one genre. Only in the first volume of the Scientific publication of Collected works this story is included in the corpus of Early Short Stories of Platonov. It was not by chance that at first in earlier studies “The Impossible” was classified as a publicistic genre. The genre and stylistic heterogeneity of this short story did not allow researchers to unambiguously determine its genre dominant for a long time. ![]() In addition to a neutral background, we highlight the lyrical monologue, scientific and publicistic discourse at the narrative level. We highlight biography, scientific article, elements of a philosophical essay, lyric and philosophical poem in the genre structure. Platonov “The Impossible” (1921) is considered as a multidimensional wholeness, with a complex structure – at the level of genre and of narration. For Roubaud the lyrical genre of the elegy and its thematic concern with love and death stands as a prime indicator of the quandary that results from our inability to solve paradoxes of modality such as those raised by Lewis in strictly theoretical terms. Roubaud’s poems take up the idea of possible worlds as real entities, and at the same time they challenge the notion that philosophy could offer an account of fiction in which the puzzling collision of the possible with the impossible that fundamentally characterizes the phenomenon of fictionality would be seamlessly unravelled. In an inspired reversal of the analysis of literary fictions by such philosophical means, the French poet Jacques Roubaud makes direct reference to Lewis’ controversial ontological picture in two cycles of elegies composed between 19. Lewis offers an account of fictional discourse according to which possible worlds described in fiction are just as real as the actual world. The metaphysics of possible worlds proposed by the analytic philosopher David K. ![]()
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