PRINCIPLES OF ORGANIZATION OF ARTISTIC TIME IN THE NOVELS OF V. AKSENOV

Аннотация

The work of Vasily Aksenov has attracted the attention of American readers and literary critics for many years. His works are quickly translated into English, and many are included in the list of required literature for students of Slavic studies in American colleges; his name is mentioned in American encyclopedias and in books on the history of Russian literature; about the artistic world of Aksenov, reports are read at scientific conferences, candidate and doctoral dissertations are written, scientific monographic studies are published, articles are published in the most prestigious American literary journals. KEYWORDS: Author, novel, times, literature. INTRODUCTION The second part includes review works of a wide profile, and the third part consists of By the writer's fiftieth birthday, a collection of articles of a narrower and more specific literary essays dedicated to him "Vasily nature, mainly analyzing one individual work. Pavlovich Aksenov: a writer in search of In the introduction, Mozheiko says that while himself" was conceived, edited by the largest working on the book, he set himself the goal of American Slavist Edward Mozheiko, but the delineating the widest possible range of topics book was delayed for a number of technical so that the reader would become familiar with reasons and was published only in 1986. The the various stages and facets of Aksenov's collection is divided into three parts: the first work. The anthology is replete with the names includes interviews of Aksenov himself and of leading Slavic scholars: in addition to about Aksenov, as well as a literary biography Mozheiko himself and the aforementioned J. of Aksenov written by J. Johnson, which has Johnson, Priscilla Mayer, Efim Etkind, Per now become the main guide for everyone who Dalgard, Natalia Gorbanevskaya, Alexander is interested in the writer's work. “PRINCIPLES OF ORGANIZATION OF ARTISTIC TIME IN THE NOVELS OF V. AKSENOV” P age 306 | 4 Zholkovsky, Inger Lauridsen, Nina Kolesnikof, uncertain future, which they opposed to Vladimir Maksimov, Konstantin Kustanovich Soviet everyday life. Slavic philologist Olga and many other. The articles examine all Matic singled out in their actions a protest genres of Aksyonov's prose, reveal the against the socialist realist ideology of spiritual world of the writer, the originality and puritanism, as well as a reflection of the novelty of his style, the artistic features of this principles of hedonism and unofficial folk talent, which continues the traditions of culture. According to Greta Slobin, the youth Russian classical literature. of that time were generally characterized by a departure from collectivist society; typical The Hermitage, Silver Age, Liberty and Ardis characters of Aksenov, Bitov, Kazakov and publishing houses have published almost all of Voinovich try to get away from traditional Aksenov's works in Russian as separate books, social duties, do not accept the "sacrifices" of and since 1987 Ardis has been publishing a their parents, and they have more in common multi-volume collection of his works. The with Western peers than with their older novels "Burn", "The Island of Crimea", "Say compatriots. Raisins", the stories "Steel Bird", "Our Golden Iron", "Paper Landscape", the plays Aksyonov's heroes of the sixties are "Aristophanian with Frogs", "Four emotionally and spiritually involved in a way of Temperaments", "Heron", the story " The life supported by Soviet ideology, but at the Right to an Island”, memoirs “In Search of a same time they find small loopholes for Sad Baby” in the 80s first came out in America, themselves (chess, jazz, an unattainable from where they then came to the author’s woman - everything that turns out to be vitally homeland to Russian readers. Aksyonov's important in personal terms, free from official success is due not only to the sharpness of his Soviet realities) , which caused outrage in the political satire, the specifics of US-Soviet Soviet press and attracted the attention of relations, the sensation around the first Russian and Western readers. In 1981, Walter Russian uncensored almanac Metropol, and Kolonsky, in a review of Our Golden Piece of the expulsion of the writer from the Soviet Iron, published in the leading American literary Union in 1980. Mainly, Aksenov's works are magazine World Literature Today, noted that attracted by their novelty and relevance of Aksenov's popularity had not weakened for ideas, liveliness of images, stylistic originality twenty years, calling the writer a "stylistic and depth of moral and philosophical issues. genius", an "engineer of the word" with with Already in the late 1960s, Aksyonov became his strikingly eloquent manner. known in America as a representative of youth After Aksenov's expulsion from the Soviet prose, who developed the theme of "fathers Union in 1980, interest in his work increased in and sons" from the position of the younger the United States. Two of his best novels "The gene