T. I. Zaytseva Udmurt State University, Udmurt Federal Research Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Izhevsk, Russian Federation, [email protected]
O. M. Maksimova Udmurt State University, Izhevsk, Russian Federation, [email protected]
ABSTRACT
Introduction: the article is devoted to identification of the defining features of the genre of the short story of the Udmurt prose writer G. D. Krasilnikov; the emphasis is on the consideration of the problematics and poetics of his short stories, expressing the original worldview of the author. The subject of the study is the ideological, figurative and structural features of G. D. Krasilnikov’s short stories. Objective: to study the specifics of the embodiment in the genre of the short story of the fundamental themes and ideas of G. D. Krasilnikov.
Research materials: short stories by G. D. Krasilnikov.
Results and novelty of the research: recent years have been marked by an increasingly growing interest in the creative heritage of G. D. Krasilnikov. This is due, first of all, to the fact that in his work he deeply explored the psychology of a person in the twentieth century, who is in a situation of choice or at a crossroads, when clear spiritual guidelines, a clear understanding of good and evil, truth and lies are needed. Despite the fact that the works of G. D. Krasilnikov are increasingly attracting the attention of modern readers, there are very few new scientific and critical studies of the writer’s work. The
article is the first to analyze the short stories of G. D. Krasilnikov in the genre aspect. The scientific novelty of the study is also due to the fact that the structure-forming principles of Krasilnikov’s short stories are characterized here in connection with the methods of creating images of heroes and time. The work presents material that receives a new interpretation taking into account modern approaches to the study of literature of the Soviet era. The analysis carried out allows us to conclude that in the works of G. D. Krasilnikov, problems of spirituality and morality associated with national identity and tradition are invariably leading. The genre self-sufficiency of Krasilnikov’s short stories largely predetermined the features of the writer’s artistic system as a whole; the formation of an ambiguous view of the world and man in his novels and short stories is largely determined by the genre nature of the short story.
Key words: Udmurt letter, creativity of G. D. Krasilnikov, short story, genre, poetics
For citation: Zaytseva T. I., Maksimova O. M. The genre of the short story in the works of the Udmurt prose writer G. D. Krasilnikov // Vestnik ugrovedenia = Bulletin of Ugric studies. 2024; 14 (3/58): 435–445.