Lyrical prose by Lev Rubinstein ("A Whole Year. My Calendar")

The article examines the "small prose" by Lev Rubinstein, one of the founders and a prominent representative of the so-called "Moscow conceptualism". On the example of the analysis of a prose text "A Whole Year. My Calendar" (2018) and its comparison with the poem "Mama Washed the Frame" and the commentary to it shows that the autobiographical trend in the conceptual writer's work is growing. The article questions the critics' observations about the polyphonism of Rubinstein's late prose, but demonstrates the monologism of the system of voices - the actor-hero and the reflecting hero, acting in a single dynamized form. The constitutive (according to modern theory) features of an autobiographical text (the image of the ego-hero, the image of the narrator, the measure of documentalism) are analyzed, and Rubinstein's text is qualified as an artistic autobiography, embedding the avant-garde writer in the tradition of Russian classical literature. The authors declare no conflicts of interests.

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