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Yuriev Denis Yurievich
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Kuban State University
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Articles count: 2
The article analyzes the novel «Pasternak» by Mikhail
Elizarov and Alexander Prokhanov’s «Ship «Joseph
Brodsky»» in the view of distinctive «signs» of
Russian culture functioning in them. Therefore, the
work of the writers - Nobel Prize winners is a kind of
prism for modern prose writers through which the
major questions for Russian history are considered: the
people and the intellectuals, social justice, national
idea, religion and statehood. The main topics are
implemented through the number of reasons, the main
of which are the motives of the blood and salvation
(the Savior on Spilled Blood), controversially allowing
philosophical problem of redemption of the depravity
of existence. Social issues are stated through allusion
layer: references to Dostoevsky's novels, Radishchev’s
«Journey from Petersburg to Moscow», Nekrasov's
poem «Who lives Happy in Russia». With the theme
of redemption organically linked theme of man's
salvation, which Prokhanov and Elizarov’s characters
decide on their own. So different view of the world
and creative aspirations of the authors are unified by
their desire to capture their era, its reversal of fortune
and historical faults in which the Great Russian
literature has always played a significant role
The peculiarities of the author strategies by
Mikhail Elizarov are analyzed in the article. His
works "balance" on the verge of postmodernist and
realistic practice. The author's prose has received
mixed reviews in the critique that’s why to reveal
its aesthetic component, problem and poetological
levels is an actual problem of the philological
science, which is aimed to recreate a complete
picture of the morden literary process. An
analytical review of the works which reveals
stylistic features of M. Elizarov's prose is given as
well as the analysis of the author's interview
concerning the artistic conception of works that
indicate the representative specific of his artistic
worldview. The latter is associated with the project
of the «new realism» which was declared in the
beginning of the XXI century. The need to display
the word «changes» and «faults» of the age to
simulate image of the hero «of its time» is an
artistic problem which is solved by adherents of the
«new» literature, with all sincerity, and often with
peremptoriness of the ideological evaluations.
«New realist» Zakhar Prilepin definitely sees
Mikhail Elizarov as ally and like-minded person in
its implementation. The objectivity of this
statement is not in the «generational», the agerelated
community but in a deep interest in the
man's fate, the history of his personality and desire
to «write» on the background of its changeable,
controversial and, at times, tragic reality