Журнал «Филоlogos»

TRADITIONS OF ''THE VILLAGE PROSE'' IN THE WORKS OF LIPETSK WRITERS OF THE TURN OF THE CENTURY

Author: Kovyrshina O.A.

''The village prose'' is one of the most significant phenomena of Russian literature of the second half of the XXth century. The belief that the prose of ''hillbillies'', having reached the peak point of its development, has dried up, has not passed the test of time. Today, ''the village prose'' is slowly being restored to its rights. Regional writers who have remained faithful to the tradition throughout the 90s-2000s are also involved in the process of reviving this unique layer of Russian literature. The actualization of the interest of provincial authors who were born and raised in the village to the village problems is due to their ancestral memory, the facts of their personal biography and life impressions. The research examines the works of Lipetsk prose writers Alexey Titov and Nikolai Smolyaninov, dedicated to the life and existence of the chernozem village. The question of the correlation of their texts with the traditions of ''the village prose'' is touched upon, the problematics and ideological and artistic originality of the works, the peculiarities of the portrayal of the characters are analyzed. The research pays attention to the study of typological generality in the image of a person among recognized masters and provincial authors. It is noted that the gallery of the righteous, truth-seekers-types of national character discovered by ''hillbillies'' - in A. Titov's prose is complemented by the image of an ambivalent, contradictory person, who genetically goes back to the heroes of V. Shukshin and late V. Rasputin. It is shown that Lipetsk authors managed to capture in vivid artistic images the contradictions of the Russian village of the 90s and give an ethical assessment of the complex processes taking place in the life of the peasantry of the border era. The main feature of the works of Titov and Smolyaninov, which unites them with the prose of V. Rasputin, V. Astafyev, B. Ekimov, is the continuity of social and moral aspects. The writers pay great attention to the image of the dynamics of person's inner life, his reaction to the crisis phenomena of reality. As a result of the research, it becomes obvious that it is necessary to further study the works of Lipetsk prose writers in order to clarify the attitude of the regional literary process to the trends in the development of ''big'' literature of the last third of the XXth century.