Fragment

In the Latin language, in its original meaning, this word was used to name pieces of broken pottery, but later fragments of remains of literary monuments , works of art ( manuscripts , sculptures , architectural structures ) were called.

This word is included in many modern languages, used as a synonym for a part (a fragment of a film, a fragment of a body, a fragment of a dream).

Fragmentation, cultivation of the fragment as a genre is a significant feature of the modern era, its philosophical thought ( Arthur Schopenhauer , Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche ) and art (literature, music) from the times of romanticism - Novalis , Friedrich Schlegel , Kierkegaard , Joubert, and others, re-finding Twentieth-century essays ( C. Kraus , E. Canetti , Choran , Eugenio d'Ors , E. Jünger , N. Gomez Davila , M. Blancheau , J. Grac , P.-A. Jourdan , etc.) and in experimental prose (“Novels in three lines” by Felix Feneon , “Gregeria” by R. Gomez de la Serna , “The Creator”, “Atlas”, and others. Ugi Borges , “The Letter e” and other books by Augusto Monterroso , “Footprints” by J. Demla , “Shades and Details” and “Notes” by L. Khol , “I remember” by J. Perek , “Opus incertum” R. Münie and others).

In Russian literature, the genre of the fragment was developed by Batyushkov , Vyazemsky , L. Shestov , V. Rozanov , later - Lydia Ginzburg , J. Olesha , A. Sinyavsky , L. Pinsky (“Minima”), M. Gasparov (“ Records and extracts ”) , Nikolai Bokov ("Fragment") and others.

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