«The Lomonosov myth» and the problem of Vasiliy Shukshin’s biographical text

In the paper the biographical text is analyzed in the framework of two alternative biographical models: «the Lomonosov myth» and the myth of the power of the homeland, individual and epochal collisions. The biographies that incarnate the writer’s personality and other works by Vasiliy Shukshin translate «the Lomonosov myth» through perceiving it by Nikolay Nekrasov (the author of «Kalina Krasnaya» often refers to the poem «Schoolboy»). The evolution of a provincial to the heights of native and world culture in Shukshin’s works is corrected by the topological opposition «city - countryside». This defines the inner contradiction and ambiguity of Shukshin’s biographical text, which is described in the light of «the Lomonosov myth». The countryside is considered to be the keeper of mode of life and existence. The city is considered to be the center of culture. The author himself realizes his way through the dialectics of acquisitions and losses and in his later works formulates the idea of homecoming.

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