Working notes of V.M. Shukshin: pragmatic status of statement

The working notes of a famous Russian writer and film director V.M. Shukshin relate to that part of the artistic heritage of the writer, that has been studied the least. So far there is no complete set of Shukshin's working notes, virtually no complex research devoted to them. However, the current level of development of Shukshin's studies search for a deeper view on the questions of origin and textology of the working notes, their genre identity, features of language and poetics, kind of influence on the literary works of Shukshin, etc., which essentially requires the comprehensive philological analysis of texts of the working notes. In this article the author turns to one of the main problems that researcher of Shukshin's working notes inevitably faces - the question of the pragmatic status of statements that can be viewed as the first step in determining the essence of the genre of working notes. Nowadays there is no agreement among researchers regarding the essence of the genre of working notes. The first publishers of the working notes -L. Anninsky and L. Fedoseeva-Shukshina - did not view them as works of art. Also these researchers introduced into scientific usage the term ''working notes'' as a special name for a certain part of the manuscript creative heritage of Shukshin. Some modern researchers as P. Glushakov tend to see working notes not only as works of art, but even as a single coherent text. In order to resolve this contradiction, the author of the article examines in detail the genre nature of Shukshin's working notes. In practice, working notes are extremely diverse in terms of the genre: they include records of creative and uncreative character, diary entries, aphorisms, quotations from literary works of other writers, some of the poems and oral statements of V.M. Shukshin. The analysis of the pragmatic status of statement of V.M. Shukshin's working notes (according to the model by famous French literary theorist J.-M. Schaeffer) showed that the traditionally used nomination (''working notes'') does not reflect the whole specific of texts designated to this genre. Working notes differ in a number of genre factors (status of the statement, saying the status, the status of addressing communication with different illocutionary acts, etc.) and do not form a unity. Although each single working note is a text on its own, the whole body of the working notes did not form any kind of a text. Finally the author comes to conclusions: 1) the working notes of V.M. Shukshin are a combination of texts with heterogeneous pragmatic status, which prevents their integration within a non-fiction genre with the nomination''working notes'' or writer's ''notebook''; 2) in the future it is necessary to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the texts of the genre of working notes to clearly define their genre status.

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