PEOPLE AND CIRCUMSTANCES IN P. NILIN’S STORIES

Abstract

The article examines the originality of problems, plots and characterology in P. Nilin’s stories. The methods of plot-compositional construction of the problem field, characteristic of P. Nilin’s work, are determined: focus on the ethical side of life; ontologization of everyday life; discovery of existential situations in everyday life. It is argued that the main subject of the image in P. Nilin’s short prose is an ordinary person, immersed in the flow of “big life” and existentially experiencing its dynamics and drama, and the main methods of characterology are “non-speaking” names, emphasizing the ordinary character and the documentary truthfulness of the story; revealing the hero in a “threshold”, morally sharpened event that reveals the essential feature of the character; self-recognition of the hero, occurring in the form of improperly direct speech and internal monologues; storytelling elements.