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Kulyapin Alexander I.,
Doctor of Philology,
Professor of the Literature Department
Altai State Pedagogical University;
F.M. Dostoevsky Russian Christian Humanitarian Academy
e-mail: iskander58@mail.ru
https://orcid.org/000-0001-9673-3855
The purpose of the study — using the material of the story “Stepka’s Love” to identify the specifics of the poetics of early Shukshin. Shukshin’s path to great literature begins after the appearance of a selection of three short stories in the third issue of the October magazine in 1961. The story “Stepka’s Love” occupies a special place in this microcycle. The influence of the principles of socialist realism, which determined the peculiarities of the poetics of the other two stories — “Pravda” and “Bright Souls”, is almost not noticeable in it. Shukshin consistently describes two visits by the main character of the story to performances of an amateur theater. In the first case, Stepan’s attitude to the theater is unconventional — on stage he sees not the actor of the play, but a familiar villager. The theater becomes a “miracle” in the second episode, when the hero takes what is fiction for real and authentic. But even in this case, there is no so-called “fourth wall” for Stepka, an imaginary partition separating the stage from the hall. Stepka’s love breaks out in the theater, after which his very life becomes a continuation of the play. In the story “Stepka’s Love”, Shukshin is not inclined to overly dramatize the situation, but very soon exactly the same plot collisions will be solved differently. In the fairy tale story “Point of View”, the event outline is the same as in “Stepka’s Love”: the groom, as if beloved and desired, is replaced at the last moment by “It is not clear who”. Only now it is hardly possible to call such a matchmaking an “ideal expression of love”.
Keywords: V.M. Shukshin, poetics, plot, conflict, theatricality, convention, play, role
The study was funded by a grant from the Russian Science Foundation (RNF, project No. 23-18-00408, https://rscf.ru/project/23-18-00408/);
Russian Christian Humanities Academy named after F.M. Dostoevsky. F.M. Dostoevsky
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