Abstract
<p>Despite the research boom of recent times and the increased interest in Andrei Bely's personality and creativity, which is reflected in numerous articles, monographs, dissertations, international scientific conferences about him, criticism and memoir remains the least studied part of the largest Russian symbolist creative legacy. Unfortunately, A. Bely's critical texts are not fully collected, we do not even have a complete idea of the volume of what he wrote. In order to comprehend the innovation of A. Bely's critical prose, it is necessary to update the research tools of the criticism itself. The correlation problem between A. Bely's creative method in the context of literary critical and memoir genres, the issues about the role and the uniqueness of portrait characteristics in different types of the discourse and the transformations of Bely's early poetics in late memoir and biography were not the subject of a special study, which determines the purpose and the tasks of the article. The performed analysis showed that the image of writers in the critical and memoir portraits is somewhat similar. This can be explained by the fact that Bely's memoir texts are the continuation of his early work. However, the publicistic nature of the criticism and the polemical origin in the memoir genre are weakened. The portrait in the structure of a memoir book is combined with the experience of the lived life and complicated by the synthesis of previous literary-critical interpretations and later evaluations. </p>
Highlights
In recent decades, the heritage of the Silver Age (Shamina, 2016; Paperno & Grossman, 1994; Matich, 2007), in particular, the works by Andrei Bely (Fleishman, 1987; Spivak, 2005a and 2005b; Kapinus, 2013), the leading theoretician of symbolism, a poet, a prose writer, a playwright and a critic, is of interest for contemporary literary criticism
The literary portrait as a genre of criticism is inseparable from those functions performed by criticism in the literary process
The peculiarity of the memoir portrait is retrospectivity, reliance on facts, biographical materials, personal testimonies about the encounters with heroes, as well as an indispensable subjective character depicted both in the selection and in the evaluation of literary facts
Summary
The heritage of the Silver Age (Shamina, 2016; Paperno & Grossman, 1994; Matich, 2007), in particular, the works by Andrei Bely (Fleishman, 1987; Spivak, 2005a and 2005b; Kapinus, 2013), the leading theoretician of symbolism, a poet, a prose writer, a playwright and a critic, is of interest for contemporary literary criticism. Bely's creative path and belonging to different genre systems - the literary-critical essays of the 1900s and late memoirs of the late 1920s and early 1930s. Bely's critical and memoir portraits poetics and to reveal the changes in his author's manner, based on the evolution of his worldview and the views on the literary process and the whole epoch. Bely's creative method in the trilogy, the differences in the principles of portrait creation within literary critical and memoir discourses. The materials and the results of the study can be used in the practice of Russian Silver Age literature teaching, and contribute to the study of other writer works who worked in a critical and memoir genre. Bely's memoirs creative history, as the writer used the texts of previous critical articles during their writing
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