The turn of the century is traditionally perceived by poets and writers as a time of rethinking the previous era and is characterized by the search for new directions, themes and forms. The Soviet period is attributed to the "era of ideological vacuum", while the works of the last decade of the XX century - to postmodernism. At present, writers are striving to bridge the gap between the USSR and Russia, to return to the definition of "Russianness", to talk again about the special path of the country and the people living on its territory. Poets have always been at the forefront of the literary process, but now the leading positions are occupied by prose writers and publicists.
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Valentin Rasputin was born on March 15, 1937 in the village of Atalanka, Irkutsk Region. After school, he studied at the Faculty of History and Philology of Irkutsk State University and worked as a correspondent for several newspapers. In the 1980s, he was a member of the editorial board of Roman-Gazeta. Novels and short stories written during the Soviet era are often referred to as so-called village prose. Literary critics speak of Rasputin as a mature and original author. Some of the most famous works of the author are the stories "Farewell to Matera" (1976), "Live and Remember" (1974), the story "French Lessons" (1973). Particular attention is focused on the novel "Ivan's Daughter, Ivan's Mother", published in 2004. The question “What happened to us after”, formulated back in the 70s, continues the eternal questions “Who is to blame” and “What to do”, but at the turn of the century it acquires a new meaning. Rasputin writes about people who did not survive the horrors of revolution, collectivization, the Great Patriotic War, but who know about them. The author makes it clear that the current generation has heard only an echo of those events and must remember them, since there is no life without memory.
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Vladimir Lichutin was born on March 13, 1940 in the town of Mezen, Arkhangelsk Region. He graduated first from a forestry technical school, and then from Leningrad State University. Zhdanov (Faculty of Journalism) and Higher Literary Courses. All of the author's works are connected with the life of people on the shores of the White Sea. This is a topic that is well known and painfully close to Lichutin. His novels and stories are based not only on the life experience of the writer himself, but also on the material of ethnographic and folkloristic expeditions that he made repeatedly. Despite the clear geographical definition of the place of events, the themes raised in the works are universal. Lichutin writes about the soul, which constitutes the "national everything." In his works, a Russian person seeks a miracle and suffers, according to the literary critic A. Yu. Bolshakova, from egocentric masochism. The heroes of the novels cannot find their way, because they forgot or did not want to know which way their ancestors went. A common thread through most of the modern works of the author ("Milady Rothman", "The Fugitive from Paradise", "The River of Love", "The Inexplicable Soul" and others) is the phenomenon of a split, a throwing of the soul between the inner and the outer, wretched, devoid of morality, life and secret thoughts.
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Yuri Polyakov was born on November 12, 1954 in Moscow. He graduated from the philological faculty of the Moscow Regional Pedagogical Institute, worked as a teacher, correspondent and editor of the "Moscow Literator". Since 2001, he has been the editor-in-chief of Literaturnaya Gazeta. While still at school, Polyakov began to write poetry, was published in Moskovsky Komsomolets, in 1979 he released Time of Arrival - the first collection of his poems. Prose works brought fame to the author. In the early 80s, he wrote the story “One Hundred Days Before the Order,” where he openly talks about hazing in the Soviet army. The work was published only in 1987. Literary critics define Polyakov's work as grotesque realism. The author captures a huge gap between deeds and words, Soviet and Russian (not Russian) thinking, between soul and reason. In his novels ("The Mushroom Tsar", "Plaster Trumpeter", "I Conceived an Escape"), the writer ponders whether the Russians are capable of rebirth as a nation, or whether they will degenerate. On the one hand, Polyakov's texts contain a dashing intrigue, a fascinating plot, adventures and adventures, but on the other hand, there is a striving for the high, which is not subject to social cataclysms and deformations.
