Experiment in the prose of Boris Rakhmanin: forms of depiction, synthesis of genres

Abstract

The article examines the creative experience of Boris Rakhmanin as a prose writer who developed new forms of synthesis in Russian prose of the 1960s - 1980s. The distinctive techniques that he experimented with contributed to the lyricisation of prose. The originality in the author's definition of the genre indicated the author's special line of thought, Boris Rakhmanin's techniques originate in prose experiments at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries (Andrei Bely, Evgeny Zamyatin, etc.) and dialogue with contemporaries (Eduardas Mieželaitis, Justinas Marcinkevičius). Analysis of the resource of synthesis methods used by Boris Rakhmanin in his prose allows us to point out their functionality in creating an image of the life and an image of the thought process of the writer's contemporaries. This analysis also gives an idea of the individual style of the writer.