Проблематика и поэтика малой прозы Д. Рубиной 1970–1980-х годов

Abstract

We consider thematic, genre-compositional, stylistic features of D. Rubina’s works of the early period of her work. We focus on the analysis of stories “On Saturdays”, “This wonderful Altukhov”, “The House behind the Green Gate”, “Thorns”, which were included in the collection of short prose by D. Rubina of the 1970s–1980s. The relevance of study is associated with the need to study the work of one of the leading modern literature authors in order to clarify the general picture of the literary process at the turn of the 20th–21st centuries and the place of a particular artist in it. We formulate the main features of D. Rubina’s early works, which consist in the increased role of the autobiographical beginning, the presence of special heroes-representatives of creative professions, attention to the problems of childhood and the relationship between the older and younger generations, the introduction of mystical elements, the proximity of stories to the novelistic genre. We draw parallels with some of the writer’s later works from the perspective of development of images, artistic techniques. We define the prospects for the study of D. Rubina’s short prose: the study of the cross-cutting motives of writer’s stories, novellas and novels from the initial to the present period of creativity, the analysis of the intertextual connections of author’s works with classical and modern Russian and foreign literature.