“UNDERGROUND PERSON” BY I. ABUZYAROV: DIALOGUE WITH F.M. DOSTOYEVSKY

Abstract

The aesthetic self-determination of ethnically non-Russian Russian writers occurs in dialogue with the traditions of Russian classics of the 19th century. For I. Abuzyarov, creating the works in the paradigms of different national and cultural traditions, the artistic discoveries by F.M. Dostoevsky are important.The concept of the work was influenced by the studies that substantiate the transcultural model of artistic development, the dialogical nature of verbal creativity, and the theory of intertextuality is developed. During the solution of the tasks set, system-structural and contexthermeneutic methods were used. It is established that the type of “underground” person in the work by I. Abuzyarov has kindred features with the paradoxicalist F.M. Dostoevsky. Undergroundness as an ontological situation, ideological and psychological space becomes the factor determining the process of identification and selfidentification of characters in I. Abuzyarov's prose. Like his predecessor, he uses the hero’s confessional introspection as the main means of revealing the “underground man” nature. The character is implemented not only in the plot, but also revealed as a subject, a carrier of a point of view. The problem of self-determination and selfawareness of the story subject is thematized and acts as the most important genreforming principle that determines the way of the main character image development. The obtained results are significant for understanding the artistic and aesthetic nature of literature that implements the phenomenon of the Russian-Tatar borderlands, as well as for determination the volume and content of “national literature” concept at the present stage.