The Image of Everyday Life in S. Mishnev's Story «Chertoroy»

Abstract

The article considers the representation of everyday life described in the story «Chertoroy» by Vologda writer Stanislav Mishnev; the story was published in the book «That is how we live» in 2008. The relevance of the research lies in the fact that the category «everyday life» initially was studied in non-literary fields of science, and it still does not have a generally accepted definition in philological science, which is of interest to modern specialists studying literature. It is revealed that Mishnev comprehends the private everyday life of Vologda peasants through the prism of social and historical cataclysms and transformations, both recent and significantly distant from today in the story «Chertoroy». In this regard, the image of everyday life in the world of the story is limited locally, but not temporally. In this respect the image of everyday life in the story is limited locally, but not temporally. The writer depicts the modification of the country way of life of the meevites for three centuries. This allowed Mishnev to visualize the origins of the village crisis state at the turn of the XX–XXI centuries. It was also found, that the main oppositions in the reproduction of everyday life in the «Chertoroy» are collective – individual, adaptive – transformative, protective – destructive. It was concluded that the image of dynamically mobile everyday life in Mishnev's story acts as a means of plot organization of the story, as a way of character's description and a tool for conveying the author's values. The novelty of the research lies in the fact that it is the first attempt to analyze the creative heritage of a modern Vologda writer from the perspective of the phenomenon of everyday life.