Open AccessThe concept of personality of Vasily Shukshin in the biography novel by Aleksey Varlamov "Shukshin"
Author(s) -
Irina A. Kostylyova
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
vestnik kostromskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta imeni n.a. nekrasova
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1998-0817
DOI - 10.34216/1998-0817-2019-25-2-171-175
Subject(s) - biography , theme (computing) , personality , context (archaeology) , opposition (politics) , literature , psychology , sociology , psychoanalysis , history , art , computer science , law , archaeology , operating system , politics , political science
The article discusses the concept of personality of Vasily Shukshin in the biography novel by Aleksey Varlamov in the context of the tradition of this genre in Russian literature, formed in creative work of Boris Zaytsev, Vladislav Khodasevich, Nina Berberova etc. The aim of the study is to analyse the characteristic of the typological principles of the genre in the artistic world of the modern writer and literary critic Aleksey Varlamov. The subject of study is the representation of the conceptual components of Vasily Shukshin's personality in the biography novel genre. The main attention is paid to the theme of Vasily Shukshin's dramatic fate, the motives of the writer's opposition to that time's power. The author's version of the "reading" of Vasily Shukshin's personality, which is slightly different from the textbook one, is analysed. As a result of the study, the conclusions about the specifi cs of the development of the biography novel genre in the works of Aleksey Varlamov, about the author's method of artistic research of the writer's biography in the system of "code of fate" of a Russian, the main motives of his life.