SHORT STORY IN «BAIKAL» MAGAZINE: ON DEVELOPMENT OF GENRE IN LITERATURE OF BURYATIA OF 2010S // Bulletin of BSU. Philology. - 2020. №3. . - С. 51-60.

SHORT STORY IN «BAIKAL» MAGAZINE: ON DEVELOPMENT OF GENRE IN LITERATURE OF BURYATIA OF 2010S

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The article reviews the role and development of the short story genre in the literary pro- cess of one of the Russian national republics. On the example of the only literary and artis- tic magazine in Buryatia, the author examines the stories by Russian and Buryat Russian- speaking writers published in the 2010s. The most characteristic forms of small prose are highlighted: story-recollection ("The Second Autumn" by A. Erbaktanov, "Pines of My Memory" by D. Sambuyeva-Bashkueva), lyrical story-monologue (B. Molonov), "events from life" stories (T. Grigorieva), stories-dialogues, story in story (Yu. Izvekov). The au- thor analyzes one of the tendencies in the development of the genre, which is especially clearly manifested in the stories by Yu. Izvekov from the book "Box of Matches", pub- lished in different years in the "Baikal" magazine. They are a synthesis of non-fiction prose and fiction-based narrative, where the autobiographical plot nevertheless recreates the deliberately built, fictional character of the narrator-hero. The conclusion is made about the genre unity of the stories, which can be seen in the depiction of the hero's self- knowledge process, with the hero as a creative personality, identical to the personality of the author.

story genre; "Baikal" magazine; narration; autobiographical basis.