The kind of sound remarks in Leonhard Frank’s play "Male Quartet"

This article examines the ways and forms of the transition of the descriptive text in Leonhard Frank’s novel The Oxenfurt Male Quartet into the stage directions of the author’s staging The Male Quartet. In L. Frank’s novel The Oxenfurt Male Quartet, a variety of characters are vividly presented, eac...

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Main Author: Denis D. Morozov
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Published: Samara National Research University 2025-07-01
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description This article examines the ways and forms of the transition of the descriptive text in Leonhard Frank’s novel The Oxenfurt Male Quartet into the stage directions of the author’s staging The Male Quartet. In L. Frank’s novel The Oxenfurt Male Quartet, a variety of characters are vividly presented, each of whom carries a unique internal conflict. The descriptive text of the novel allows the reader to better understand the motivation of the characters and their relationships, creating a system of multi-layered images. However, in the stage directions of the author’s staging The Male Quartet, this process is transformed, conveying not only internal experiences but also visual images. The entire body of stage directions clearly breaks down into those oriented toward the stage solution (addressed primarily to the director), those that supplement off-stage events and "complete" the plot, and those that enable the actor to more accurately construct the internal content of the image. The transition from descriptive text to dramatic structure inevitably transforms the original concept of the work, its structure, and main plot lines.
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spelling doaj-art-fe9bb61dfd034e339656153b1cf907c02025-08-20T03:02:45ZengSamara National Research UniversityСемиотические исследования2782-29662782-29582025-07-0152626910.18287/2782-2966-2025-5-2-62-698936The kind of sound remarks in Leonhard Frank’s play "Male Quartet"Denis D. Morozov0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9647-3758South Ural State Humanitarian and Pedagogical UniversityThis article examines the ways and forms of the transition of the descriptive text in Leonhard Frank’s novel The Oxenfurt Male Quartet into the stage directions of the author’s staging The Male Quartet. In L. Frank’s novel The Oxenfurt Male Quartet, a variety of characters are vividly presented, each of whom carries a unique internal conflict. The descriptive text of the novel allows the reader to better understand the motivation of the characters and their relationships, creating a system of multi-layered images. However, in the stage directions of the author’s staging The Male Quartet, this process is transformed, conveying not only internal experiences but also visual images. The entire body of stage directions clearly breaks down into those oriented toward the stage solution (addressed primarily to the director), those that supplement off-stage events and "complete" the plot, and those that enable the actor to more accurately construct the internal content of the image. The transition from descriptive text to dramatic structure inevitably transforms the original concept of the work, its structure, and main plot lines.https://journals.ssau.ru/semiotic/article/viewFile/28754/11377leonhard frankochsenfurt "male quartet""male quartet"stage directionself-staging
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