THE PROBLEM OF THE FORMATION OF A NEW HERO IN PROLETARIAN LITERATURE

Abstract

The article focuses on a relevant problem of forming a new literary hero in the emerging Soviet literature in the in the 1920s and the early 1930s. The study of the problem is based on works of proletarian writers D. Furmanov, F. Gladkov, M. Shaginyan and others. The question of the method of cognition and disclosure of reality in the literary process of the period remains a matter of contention. Particular attention is paid to the fact that the new positive hero of proletarian literature is a reflection of the ideological and aesthetic characteristics of that time. This concept of the human is based on the principle of “alteration of human material” (A. Fadeev). The works of proletarian writers are analyzed from the viewpoint of the need for a new construction in society and in literature, which determined the specifics of the literary process and the meaningfulness of the positive hero of this period.