Invariant art forms in the essays of Gerold Belger

Abstract

The article contemplates the genre of the essay and its invariant forms. The authors of the article point out that the essay is a genre that has a close proximity with scientific, journalistic and fiction literature, however, it does not apply entirely to any of them. From the perspective of the authors, the structure-forming principle of the essay is the leading part of the personality of the author’s production. The author-essayist can act in several roles: a real author, a social person, a private person. The entirely building of the text, its form, composition, vocabulary, and techniques are interconnected with the final author's character. The authors highlight that another equally important feature of the style of the essay is the presence of figurativeness, expressivity — which is an expression of artistry. The aim of the article is to try to educe the specificity of invariant artistic forms in the essayism of the writer and publicist Gerold Belger. As follows from the analysis, the authors enunciate conclusions that the essayism of Gerold Belger is typologically multifarious and involves such types as: essay-sketch, essay-artistic word, essay-reflection, essay-investigation. The authors assert that the creations of this writer should be accounted as invariant forms of artistic and journalistic essay, meaningfully and compositionally unifying the features of fiction and journalism.