PECULIARITY OF A.I. KUPRIN’S CREATIVE METHOD: “MIXING” REALISM AND ROMANTISM

Abstract

The article studies a current problem of artistic synthesis in Russian literature. This question is considered by the authors of the article on the material of A.I. Kuprin. The question of the creative method of the writer, which the author himself called the “mixing” of realism with romanticism, continues to be debatable. Particular attention is paid to the fact that I.A. Kuprin, having “dissociated himself” from classical realism, turns to the exalted world of a “natural man” close to nature, a world full of hope, thoughts about the future and the present, recognizing at the same time his deepest tragedy. The basis of such a worldview of the writer is the principle of “romantic double peace”. The authors of the article analyze the novel “The Duel” (1905) from the standpoint of the idea of a “break” between a dream and reality, which determines the essence of a realistic concept of personality. The authors conclude that A.I. Kuprin cannot be measured in the context of one philosophical and ideological-aesthetic context: because he is a realist, a romantic, a philosopher, a writer, and most importantly, he and the hero are people who are infinitely in love with life, and in as a result of underestimation (or reassessment) of its socially and psychologically conditioned processes, it is possible to miss one of the most important components of his multifaceted and very original creativity.