Valentin Rasputin's prose about creativity as an aesthetic manifesto of the writer
https://doi.org/10.25587/2782-6635-2024-1-37-44
Abstract
The article reviews the prose by Valentin Rasputin, in which the writer expressed his aesthetic ideas about the nature of creativity. The short story “Down and upstream. Essay on a trip” (1972), and the short novels such as “"What to tell the crow” (1981), “Natasha” (1982), “Vision” (1997), “In bad weather” (2003) show the image of the artist in a situation of personal and creative self-reflection. In the image of the autobiographical hero-writer, Rasputin embodies the drama of the artist, overcoming the inconsistency of the rational and irrational sides of creativity. It is concluded that the laws of art and the mystery of creativity in the writer's prose are connected with unraveling the mystery of life and death, with comprehending the mystery of being. It is concluded that the plot of the artist’s self-reflection in the analyzed works acts as a kind of aesthetic manifesto of their author.
About the Author
S. S. Imikhelova
Dorzhi Banzarov Buryat State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
IMIKHELOVA Svetlana Stepanovna – Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor, Department of Russian and Foreign Literature
Ulan-Ude
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Imikhelova S.S. Valentin Rasputin's prose about creativity as an aesthetic manifesto of the writer. Issues of National Literature. 2024;13(1):37-44. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.25587/2782-6635-2024-1-37-44
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