M. PRISHVIN AND A. HAYDOCK: A DIALOGUE ABOUT MANCHURIA, MAN AND TRUTH (“ZHEN-SHEN” AND “STARS OF MANCHURIA”)

The article is devoted to the consideration of the phenomenon of literary «synchrony» – contemporaneous appearance of the phenomenon of philosophical and poetical identity in the texts of authors who never crossed with each other in the living space. A comparative analysis of the famous novel by M. Prishvin “ Ginseng “ and the little-known collection of short stories by A. Haydock “The Stars of Manchuria” suggests that the creative searches of the authors developed in the same way. Through the comprehension of eastern nature and Eastern philosophy, writers come to the idea of the unity of all living things and the interconnectedness of everything with this in a single stream of Being. Paintings of neo-romantic nature, motives of escape from reality, music, the search for the ideal feminine principle, the “keys of happiness” and the truth of human existence play an equally significant role in both texts. All this allows us to understand in a new way not only the Prishvin creativity, but also the literary process of the 1930s in the unity of two branches – the metropolis and the eastern line of the «first wave» of Russian emigration.