Imago in Fabula. Intraidigetic image in literature and cinema

In the literature of the XIX -XX centuries, and later in the cinema, plots are not uncommon, where a visual image - for example, a picture or sculpture - becomes an equal acting person of the narrative. Heroes see the image and enter into complex, sometimes conflict relations with him: love, fear, obsession, etc. The book of Sergei Zenkin talks about such images, deeply introduced into the narrative and called the author of intraidigetic. He addresses the masterpieces of literature and cinema from Pushkin and Wilde to Fellini and Antonioni to show how the development of these images in modern culture may indicate important changes in the techniques and tasks of artistic narrative, as well as the practices of visual arts.
Sergey Zenkin - Doctor of Philology, French literature specialist in the XIX -XX century, chief researcher at the IVGI RSUSU, professor of the Higher School of Economics and Free University