Abstract

Somehow we got to talking about … the concept of a Jungian archetype … [according to which] all people have an archaic … psychic layer dating from the Paleolithic era, which once gave birth to myths and now gives birth to works of art…. Zoshchenko felt that the writer should portray in man not only the personal but also the "generic," what history had deposited in his psyche. Writers in pursuit of fashion did not satisfy [Zoshchenko] because they ignored the generic and historical for the sake of the temporary and individual.

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