DOI: 10.22281/2413-9912-2021-05-02-130-138

POLITICAL REALITIES OF THE COMMON REALITY AND THEIR REFLECTION
IN THE PROSE OF V. AKSENOV AND S. DOVLATOV

The article compares the memoirs of dissidents and the prose of V. Aksenov and S. Dovlatov (books «In Search of a Sad Baby», «Craft», «Suitcase»). There is a difference in approaches to the creation of texts. In the memoirs of dissidents, the political and ideological aspects of emigration are reproduced, the stages of departure are described in detail. In the prose of the writers of the third wave, the image of the artist of the word, an exile, forcibly separated from his homeland, is comprehended. V. Aksenov and S. Dovlatov follow the tradition that has developed in literature — images of the power / poet opposition. Writers, like immigrants who are not professional writers, do not strive to document all the nuances of going to the West, their goal is to go beyond comprehending only the socio-political aspects of going abroad. Writers solve aesthetic problems, political realities for them are only a reflection of the entourage of external circumstances. Thus, V. Aksenov establishes successive ties between the creators of the «Silver Age» and the artists of the third wave of words. For the autobiographical hero S. Dovlatov, expulsion from the USSR and «relocation» to the United States is an opportunity to realize himself as a person freed from the ideological component, to comprehend the «particularity» of his existence.

Keywords: emigration, documentary-memoir genre, prose, artistic concept, third wave, stages of departure abroad.

Academician I.G. Petrovskii Bryansk State University (Russia)

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