В поисках аутентичности и глубинных структур: конструирование литературного традиционализма (1960-2010-е годы)

Новое литературное обозрение. 2025. Т. 196. № 6. С. 190–217.

Анна Разувалова

This article analyzes two stages in the construction of concepts of literary traditionalism by Soviet and post-Soviet critics and literary scholars in the second half of the twentieth century. The optics in the critical and philological community, beginning from the second half of the 1960s, was oriented primarily toward capturing the «stable» and «deep-lying» represented in the characters of the protagonists of village prose and manifest (in the 1970s and 1980s) in a specifically realistic mythologism, which allowed the village writers, as it seemed to some scholars, to make out «ontology» beyond social empirics. In the second, post-Soviet stage, scholars began actively to use individual ideas from the Moscow-Tartu school, combined with notions about archetypes and the «cultural unconscious», as well as linguo-cultural studies of «concepts», to substantiate and affirm village prose as the primary manifestation of national cultural tradition. The author of this article traces the transformation of this approach, which, to certain degree, amounts to structural-semiotic scholarship, with its «order-imposing» intention strengthened and with an emphasis on a teleologized account of continuity and heritage.

Keywords: архетип, традиционализм, мифопоэтика, village prose, деревенская проза, traditionalism, archetype, mythopoetics