Shilova, N. L. THE KIZHI ISLAND AND “RURAL” WRITERS: A HISTORY OF FAILED RELATIONSHIPS // Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2020. Vol. 42. No 5. P. 52–59. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2020.499


Literary studies

THE KIZHI ISLAND AND “RURAL” WRITERS: A HISTORY OF FAILED RELATIONSHIPS

Shilova
N. L. 		Petrozavodsk State University
Keywords:
Kizhi
island
art space
rural prose
“thaw”		 Summary: The article continues and supplements the study of the image of the Kizhi island in Russian literature of the USSR of the 1960s and 70s, in this case, regarding its representation by various literary groups and movements. For the first time the attitude of the rural writers to the island, the place of the island in the artistic topography of “rural prose” and features of its image become the subject of consideration. The study is conducted with the involvement of literary texts, journalism, the epistolary heritage of F. Abramov, V. Astafiev, V. Soloukhin, E. Nosov. The focus of attention is the paradoxical discrepancy between the island’s image that has rooted in mass consciousness as a place of historical memory that preserves the traditions of Russian life, and the “rural” writers’, whose work provided the most profound development of this topic in the 1970s, restrained attitude towards the island. The analysis of the reception and representation of theKizhi island in “rural prose” is carried out taking into account and involving the historical and literary context, including comparison with the image of the island in the literature of the Thaw. The research materials show that the Kizhi island turns out to be a more important locus for the authors of the generation of the “thaw” – A. Voznesensky, R. Rozhdestvensky, Yu. Kazakov and others, whose textual presentation of the island’s image turns out to be more significant, detailed, and endowed with important value characteristics. The article offers an explanation of the marginal position of the image of the island which was famous in the 1970s in the artistic topography of “rural prose”.



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