ARTISTIC IMAGE AS A STAGE OF LITERARY DIALOGUE: R. BURNS, V. SAROYAN, J. D. SALINGER

Abstract

The artistic image of the rye field, as a stage of literary dialogue, has brought together
three talented authors – R. Burns, V. Saroyan, and J. D. Salinger. This point of the path of
human existence – the rye field, as a stage of literary dialogue of the three writers – expands
the light course of the trajectory of its path becoming a symbol of human existence. In R.
Burns’s work the rye field as a geographical reality is visible. In poetic speech it takes on a
philosophical space, whereas in the works of V. Saroyan and J. D. Salinger it is not depicted as
a geographical reality, it is only an imagery field, concentrated in the inner layers of the image
with peculiar symbolic accents. The rye field, as a stage of literary dialogue, creates an
interesting philosophical space of thoughts and ideologies for the three authors, where the
unique worldview layers of each author become visible.