Izvestiya of Saratov University.
ISSN 1817-7115 (Print)
ISSN 2541-898X (Online)


A.I. Solzenitsyn

«An Artist and a Human Being as One Entity»: to the Question of the Correlation and Interaction of the Biographical and Fictional Principles in the Creative Work of A.I. Solzenitsyn

Skaftymov’s definition of «an artist and a human being as one entity» is directly applicable to the creative method of A.I. Solzenitsyn. Deep understanding of an artistic research, aesthetic approach of a realism writer corroborate the scientific thoughts of A.P. Skaftymov, who predetermined the characteristics of the new writer type and the new prose type of the XXth century.