ВАСИЛИЙ БЕЛОВ И ВИКТОР АСТАФЬЕВ: К ИСТОРИИ ЛИЧНЫХ И ТВОРЧЕСКИХ ОТНОШЕНИЙ
VASILY BELOV AND VICTOR ASTAFYEV: THE HISTORY OF THEIR PERSONAL AND CREATIVE RELATIONSHIPS

Summary/Abstract: The article examines the dynamics of the relationships between outstanding Russian writers of the second half of thetwentieth century V. I. Belov and V. P. Astafyev, reconstructed mainly on the basis of letters, memoirs, and little-knownpublications in periodicals. The internal (psychological) nature of their confl ict is analyzed for the fi rst time. This approachis increasingly relevant, because recently the scientifi c literature and journalism have been either politicizingthe relationships between the writers or mythologizing them, making them seem nearly perfect. The analysis of thesources leads to the conclusion that from the typological perspective the writers’ relationships can be classifi ed as“frenmity” (a portmanteau of “fi endship” and “enmity”), which presupposes a certain internal plot. Its main stages arethe following: mutual interest, soft patronage from the senior writer, a sense of spiritual affi nity, the fi rst signs of beingdisappointed in each other while maintaining external unity, enmity, regret on both sides about the disagreement, andindividual statements about the intentions to restore old friendship.

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