A.P. Skaftymov

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.

V.V. Prozorov draws the portrait of the outstanding Russian scholar Alexandr Skaftymov, offers some reflections on Skaftymov’s original approach to the phenomenon of fiction, and characterizes the basic principles of Saratov philological school, founded by Skaftymov in the middle of the twentieth century.