Description of the room - part of the artistic image in the literature

Any art work begins with an image - the author's view of a certain phenomenon, situation, a person through the prism of aesthetic and emotional perception. It creates an arena on which action unfolds, characters collide, confronts the objective with the subjective. And the usual description of the room becomes part of the atmosphere, provides new artistic details.

"A room as a room is a bed, a wardrobe, a table" - even the mean words of the character who speaks about the room can convey his mood. For example, disappointment in what you see or the ability to be content with minimal comforts.

It does not matter whether the author uses the long or short description of the room. It should be appropriate: to develop the plot, to reveal the inner world of the hero, to project the attitude of the author himself to what is happening.

The description of the room can be a reflection of life, the projection of the inner state of the character. Raskolnikov's tiny room becomes the image of the entire city and the life of a small man who is afraid of hitting his head high and bumping into the ceiling of circumstances. Yellow wallpaper on the walls is associated with fatigue. A large and awkward sofa occupying half the room creates a feeling of vain idleness (the northern capital) amid poverty. Dostoevsky shows how the oppressive atmosphere of the "box" squeezes the consciousness of the character and makes you look for a way out.

The room description is used to characterize the characters. The cabinet of Bolkonsky, filled with an orderly disorder, shows the life of the master full of meaning and activity, calls respect to the man of mental labor on the part of Tolstoy.

Description of the room with an easy submission of the author becomes the embodiment of time, flashed like a furnace spark in the room of the novel "The White Guard" Bulgakov. The clock acts as a bridge between the present and the past, arrange a roll call in different voices from the dining room and the mother's bedroom. Smells, colors, sounds come to life, like in a "delirium of scarlet fever", and fill the rooms of the house.

The description of the room in an art style is by no means an insect frozen in amber. By releasing facts, fantasy, experience, the author himself finds new nuances in the process of creativity, corrects the initial view, makes sudden discoveries. Presenting the reader with a verbal interpretation of his own perception, the writer proposes to become an interpreter of images. Variants are quite remote from the "original". The critical view of the writer of the times of Turgenev, who ironically looked at the rich and decorated room of Kirsanov, will be greeted with understanding by the fans of practical style. However, the author wanted to show that the cabinet should be a worker, and modern man will see in desire to surround himself with luxury in show-off.

Because the word "interior" in fiction really stands in the meaning of the inner world, through which the author comes into contact with the worlds of readers.