«Судьба России – давать свет миру, человечеству»: творчество Ф.А. Абрамова в контексте литературной и общественной жизни ХХ–ХХI веков

Abstract

The aim of the study is an analytical review of the range of major and peripheral literary issues discussed during the international scientific conference dedicated to the centenary of the birth of Fedor Alexandrovich Abramov. Among the main issues actualized in the process of studying the creative legacy of the prose writer, it is worth identifying promising areas of understanding phenomena that are the near and extended context of the works of the founder of the “village prose”, clarifying the genesis of industrial literature, identifying conflicting links with the entire previous literary tradition of the tetralogy “Brothers and sisters”. The author of the article substantiates the productivity and prospects of the genre, comparatively typological, cultural-civilizational, mythopoetic, intertextual approaches to the work of F.A. Abramov and his entourage, implemented in the studies presented by literary scholars from A.M. Gorky IWL RAS, Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House), Lomonosov Moscow State University, St. Petersburg University, Moscow Pedagogical State University, Department of Slavonic Studies of University of Greifswald (Germany), Moscow Region State University, Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosov, other scientific and educational organizations. Independent, but deeply integrated into the general issues of Abramology, is the issue of studying literary and literary critical concepts of F.A. Abramov’s. The review of the reports and messages made at the conference allows us to make a reasonable conclusion that the literary legacy of F.A. Abramov’s is of value not only in the artistic and aesthetic terms, but also in terms of the civilizational and world outlook. The conference confirmed the tendency to improve and deepen the traditional approaches, the effectiveness and the need for the new approaches to the study of the work of a great Russian writer.