This article considers the interaction of ethics and aesthetics in A. Burgess's worldview. It is based on an analysis of the novels about the minor poet Enderby, who is interpreted as the writer's alter ego.
Рассказ Д.Г. Лоуренса «Англия, моя Англия» (1915) привлекал внимание отечественных литературоведов лишь косвенно, но, на наш взгляд, ему принадлежит одна из заметных ролей в формировании представления об «английскости» в литературе ХХ в. В английском литературоведении заметен анализ Р. Эббэтсона (Ebbatson), который в книге An Imaginary England: Nation, Landscape and Literature, 1840-1920 рассматривает (и пересматривает) с точки зрения английскости произведения братьев Теннисон, Руперта Брука, Эдварда Томаса, Дэвида Лоуренса, завершая работу сопоставительным анализом двух издательских версий рассказа «Англия, моя Англия» в ракурсе эдвардианского фольклорного возрождения [1].Отдельные компоненты концепции английскости начинают формиро-ваться задолго до ХХ в. Одна из ведущих ролей здесь принадлежит, как нам представляется, исследованию разнообразия национальных типов на терри-тории Англии и их влияния на английскую культуру, основу которому поло-жил Мэтью Арнольд, считающийся многими авторитетными исследователя-ми проблемы основоположником концепции английскости [2, 3, 4]. Мэтью Арнольд считал, что противоречивость национального характера англичан связана с сочетанием кельтских, англосаксонских (германских) и норманд-ских черт характера. М. Арнольд создает книгу «Об изучении кельтской ли-тературы» (1893), поводом к написанию которой послужило его недовольст-во «филистерским» духом современной английской культуры и восхищение древней культурой кельтов, ставшее причиной насмешек над ним в критике. Говоря о необходимости изучения кельтской культуры, критик часто сравни-вает греческую и кельтскую культуры [5. P. 11, 32, 168], отмечает преимуще-ства кельтской поэзии перед германской . Арнольд считал, что «германский дух» дает англичанам «сочетание уравновешенности и че-
This year the literary public celebrates 100 th anniversary of Anthony Burgess' birth (1917-1993). The trilogy The Long Day Wanes is among early works of the author, but also the author considers perspective of the East and the West relationship here. In the article we consider the main lines of the characters representing the mother country and colony, also we designate evolution of heroes in the trilogy and we draw a conclusion on as far as the writer departs from the traditional ways the East-common English literature depicting in the first half of the 20 th century. It is possible to allocate two tendencies of the East assessment in the trilogy: image of Asians as slowwitted and silly and, on the contrary, strange, difficult representatives of an exotic mentality. There is no uniformity in the image of colonialists. Some Europeans and British feel "at home", being in East space, like culture and mentality of the East, and some represent type of the colonialist treating everything as an object to study. The special attention is deserved by any representatives of "false" identity having lost themselves in someone else's system of values.
The paper is devoted to the problem of depicting the "internal other" in English literature in the second half of the 20 th century. For a long time the significance of Welsh characters as the Others was not as essential for English literature as for Irish or Scottish; however, in the second half of the 20 th century the attitude to them changes, which, as we suppose, is connected with the establishment of the European Union and foregrounding of the Arthurian myth. This brings about the discussions of English works of literature of the 1980s like A Maggot (1986) by John Fowles and Any Old Iron (1988) by Anthony Burgess. In these novels one can trace particular similarities in the depiction of Welsh characters. For example, the characters have a widespread family name Jones, and also the authors depict such stereotypes of Welsh behavior as craving for alcohol and garrulousness. The narrations of both novels have certain similarities: the main characters participate in a "quest", the consequences of which must play a significant role in the history of their nation and the world in general. All above mentioned facts argue for the specific status of Welsh characters in the English novel of the end of the 20 th century and for a particular place literature allots to them not only in the national but also in the world history.
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