The image of the future in the poetics of 20th century Russian prose (V. Astafyev, V. Belov, V. Rasputin, V. Shukshin)

Bolshakova Alla Yu.,

Doctor of Philology, Leading Researcher

Gorky Institute of  World  Literature of  the Russian Academy of Sciences

e-mail: allabolshakova@mail.ru

The article is devoted to the study of the image of the future in the poetics of the leading representatives of the Russian Village prose of the second half of the twentieth century. To solve this problem, the categories of poetics are considered: the artistic (imaginary, mental) world as a set of potential possibilities of the future, artistic time in the unity of the past, present and future, the typology of the hero, the image of the reader as a program of perception and influence on future generations, etc. The futurological attitudes of the writers, expressed through direct word, by means of rhetorical poetics, are also given. Special attention is paid to the category of aesthetic ideal a focus of the author’s ideas about the ideal future, as well as historical inversion, suggesting the localization of future ideals in the past. In general, it is concluded that the mentioned writers fulfilled their mission to preserve the values of the past in the cultural memory of the nation in order to implement them in the future. The pathos of the Village prose is close to the ideas of Russian cosmism: the image of the future affirmed the harmony of the bio- and noosphere, humanity  and nature.

Keywords: image of the future, poetics, Russian Village prose, artistic world, typology of the hero, aesthetic ideal, Russian cosmism

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