Village prozah - the direction in the Russian literature of the 1950-1980s, associated with the appeal to traditional values in the depiction of modern village life [1] .
History
Although individual works, critically reflecting on collective farm experience, began to appear already in the early 1950s ( essays by Valentin Ovechkin , Alexander Yashin , Anatoly Kalinin , Efim Dorosh ), it was only in the mid-1960s that “village prose” reached such a level of artistry in a special direction (the story of Alexander Solzhenitsyn " Matryonin Yard " was of great importance for this). Then the term itself appeared.
The largest representatives, the "patriarchs" of the direction are Fedor Abramov , Vasily Belov , Valentin Rasputin . Writer Vladimir Soloukhin and film director Vasily Shukshin became a bright and original representative of the “village prose” of the younger generation. The semi-official organ of the writers of the tree was the magazine Our Contemporary .
The beginning of perestroika was marked by an explosion of public interest in the new works of the most prominent of them (Rasputin's Fire, The Sad Detective by Viktor Astafyev , Everything's Ahead) by Belov, but the change in the socio-political situation after the overthrow of communism and the collapse of the USSR led to the center of gravity in literature shifted to other phenomena, and village prose fell out of the works of the popular genre.
Meanwhile, these works are of great importance for the preservation of national Russian culture and historical memory. It was writers-villagers who portrayed the tragedy of collectivization (“ Men and Women ” by Boris Mozhaev ).
Significant works of village prose
| Year | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 1928 - 1931 | "Girls" | Cochin, Nikolai Ivanovich |
| 1953 | "Essays on collective farm life" | Ovechkin, Valentin Vladimirovich |
| 1957 | " Brothers and Sisters " | Abramov, Fedor Aleksandrovich |
| 1963 | " Matryonin yard " | Solzhenitsyn, Alexander Isaevich |
| 1965 | "On the Irtysh" | Zalygin, Sergey Pavlovich |
| 1966 | "The usual case" | Belov, Vasily Ivanovich |
| 1966 | "Alive" | Mozhaev, Boris Andreevich |
| 1966 | " Lyubavin " | Shukshin, Vasily Makarovich |
| 1976 | " Farewell to Matera " | Rasputin, Valentin Grigorievich |
| 1976 | " Tsar-fish " | Astafev, Victor Petrovich |
| 1978 | " Kasian Ostudny " | Akulov, Ivan Ivanovich |
| 1982 | "Living Water" | Krupin, Vladimir Nikolaevich |
Modern writers, followers of the traditions of village prose
Among the followers of the tradition of prose of the villagers are usually called such modern writers as Roman Senchin (“Yoltyshev”, 2009, “Flooded area”, 2015, and some stories), Mikhail Tarkovsky (“Five years before happiness”, 2001, “Frozen time” 2003, “Enisey, let go!”, 2009, “Toyota-Kresta”, 2009), partly Zakhar Prilepin (“Sin”, 2007), Natalia Klyucharyova (“Village of Fools”, 2010), Moshe Shanin (“Places not so populated ”, 2016), Dmitry Novikov (“ Golomyanoye Flame ”, 2016), Alexey A. Shepelev (“ Mir-village and its inhabitants ”, 2017) and others. He relates his story to village prose Ilya Ludanov s [2] .
See also
- Country Writers
Notes
- ↑ Minokin, 1977 , p. 85.
- ↑ Pulse on the verge of delight “ Rossiyskaya Gazeta ”, December 2, 2015
Literature
- Minokin, MV Modern Soviet prose about a collective farm village. - M .: Enlightenment, 1977.
- Khvatkov A.I. On his native land, in his native literature. - M .: Contemporary, 1980.
- Flowers G. A. Theme of the village in modern Soviet prose. - L .: Knowledge, 1985.
- Parte K. Russian village prose: a bright past. - Tomsk: Publishing house of Tomsk State University, 2004.
- Razuvalov A. Writers- "villagers": literature and conservative ideology of the 1970s. - M .: New Literary Review, 2015. - 616 p. - ISBN 978-5-4448-0285-4 .
Links
- Country prose: creators and heroes
- Russian humanitarian encyclopedic dictionary (inaccessible link) (inaccessible link from 14-06-2016 [1141 day])
- "Village prose" as a phenomenon in the literature of the 70-80s of the XX century.
- Dictionary of Literary Studies P.A. Nikolayev
- Lecture on village prose