S. V. Sheyanova National Research Ogarev Mordovia State University, Saransk, Russian Federation, [email protected]
N. M. Yusupova Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russian Federation, [email protected]
ABSTRACT
Introduction: at present the reader’s audience is particularly interested in creative experiments in which the historical fate of the Russian peasantry in the «turning» eras is artistically comprehended. The article is devoted to the study of the problem-thematic range of modern Mordovian historical prose. The subject of analysis is the peculiarity of the reception of the period of collectivization and dekulakization in the story by Erzyan prose writer A. Doronin «A Wolf Ravine».
Objective: to reveal the features of the artistic reconstruction of the events of the 1930s, the modeling of the relationship between a man and society in the story by A. Doronin «A Wolf Ravine».
Research materials: the story by A. Doronin «A Wolf Ravine».
Results and novelty of the research: the historical story « A Wolf Ravine » for the first time becomes the object of scientific understanding and is introduced into the context of Finno-Ugric literary criticism. A. Doronin artistically interprets the real events and circumstances of the resettlement of dispossessed peasants of the Volga region to the uninhabited steppes of Kazakhstan. As a result of the study, we conclude that the actualization of this problem-thematic cluster is due to the creative concept of the historical writer; the individual author’s approach to the reconstruction of historical narrative can be traced in the writer’s desire to realistically reveal the relationship of personality and society in the tragic 1930s; to analyze intentions of people and of the psychological states of the characters. Problems of a sociopolitical nature, actualized in the story, are filled with philosophical, axiological content, and lead to a multi-faceted understanding of the «man and history» problem.
Key words: A. Doronin, modern Mordovian prose, historical story, problem-thematic code, image, era of collectivization and dekulakization.
Acknowledgements: the author expresses gratitude to the reviewers.
For citation: Sheyanova S. V., Yusupova N. M. The specifics of interpretation of the history in the story by A. Doronin «A Wolf Ravine» // Vestnik ugrovedenia = Bulletin of Ugric Studies. 2021; 11 (1): 139–147.