The phenomenon of creative self-reflection and the problem of creating a biography of the writer

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The article deals with the consideration of numerous cases of the writer's self-reflection when creating his scientific biography, about the dialogical links of biography with the epoch. The creative life of an artist can develop both thanks to and despite the influence of time, or even independently of it. Attention is paid to the problem of the gradual formation of the writer, the creative person's awareness of his own mission, his socio-cultural destiny. There is an important question about the incentive motives for choosing a profession, which include a fateful meeting with a great artist, and the burden of accumulated life impressions, and the experienced psychological trauma. The importance of the writer's diverse reception of someone else's aesthetic experience is great. The attitude to this experience can be expressed as a triad: influence, repulsion, mutual enrichment. The article discusses the dual role of the creative crisis (the annoying lack of a theme, the feeling of exhaustion and frustration, the impoverishment of creative means), which can be considered not only as a failure, but also as a rare chance of a probable productive renewal. The examples of such radical renewal in the creative life of V.P. Kataev, Yu.V. Trifonov, V.F. Tendryakov in the 1960-1970s are given. In addition, the article takes into account the phenomenon of the literary generation, belonging to which can become a school for the writer and help him to determine the vector of further development, the problems of creativity, the choice of artistic language, creative manner. The author talks about the special importance of cultural generation and the own individual creative code developed by the writer, which the writer will pass on to future literary generations.