Ego-texts: levels of privacy in their interaction with pub lic discourses (on material of se veral personal diaries from soviet epoch)

Abstract

In this article, the diary is seen as a kind of literary writing being carried out under the major narrative
forms (Novel, Tragedy, Comedy, Satire — Hayden White). In one diary can coexist episodes
addressed the different circles of the «ideal readers». These categories of potential readers correspond
to the different levels of intimacy on which narration is conducted. The categories of readers and levels
of privacy vary in the set of topics, intertextual links and discourses used. The author of the article
illustrates her reflections on the examples of several personal diaries of 1960-th — the beginning of
the 1980s., both published and unpublished to date.