Журнал «Филоlogos»

STYLISTIC ORIGINALITY OF V.G. RASPUTIN'S STORY "THE HUT"

Author: Kolosova S.N.

The article studies the style of V.G. Rasputin's short story "The Hut". The image of the house in the works of V.G. Rasputin is often associated with a village theme, the theme of a birthplace. However, the appeal to the image of the house becomes in the story "Izba" the key one both in the construction of the plot and in the creation of an imaginative system and acquires not only a plot-forming meaning, but also a symbolic one, designed to reveal the sacred significance of this image in the formation of the author's life philosophy. The techniques of portraiture used by the author to reveal the dominant themes in his work: home, Homeland, family, female destiny, etc. are investigated in this work on the material of the story "Izba". Moreover, the story written in 1999 creates a portrait of the dramatic era of the post-Soviet period of Russian history, and the description of the hut, deprived of its owner, is especially indicative in this regard. Portraiture of the image of the hut metaphorically expresses the basic qualities necessary to overcome all the challenges for a Russian, the Russian village, and Russia as a whole. Based on the analysis of the main structural and content components of the text, the article reveals the originality of plot construction, examines the functioning of the ring composition, gives an interpretation of the main images, motifs, details characteristic of the writer's stylistic tradition. So, for example, the style-forming component of the story is a portrait, used in creating the image of a hut. This technique introduces not only a lyrical beginning to the prose text, but also defines the main theme of the story. It is the fate and the original purpose of the hut that is at the center of the narrative and determines the features of the plot and composition, and the attraction of symbolic images of the story (swallows, fields, stoves, stumps, etc.), expands the artistic content of the work. A significant compositional solution in creating the images of the story is the fact that throughout the work portrait sketches of the main character Agafya are always given after the description of her hut. In this way, the leading motive of the story is consistently created: the motive of the indivisibility of the heroine and her house.

Key words:
the author's style; portraiture; the image of the house; the motif of indivisibility; ring composition; the meaning of the name