Representation of the Soviet literary biographical canon in modern art culture

Abstract

   The article analyzes the features of the representation of the Soviet literary biographical canon in the modern artistic process. The author notes the extrapolation of the literary canon to the genre of biopic and examines the reasons for using the Soviet literary tradition in modern culture. The article analyzes the genesis and evolution of the features of the Soviet literary biographical canon, pointing out the controversial nature of the biography genre in literary studies, which is associated with the dual attitude of biography to fiction and fact. The creation of a literary biographical canon is considered in the context of the formation of the Soviet culture ideological paradigm, characterized by heroization and mythologization. The study indicates the paradoxical nature of the biographical canon, which requires the idealization of positive characters and their predictability, it presents biography as a type of the character development, revealing a connection with hagiography. The article considers the typology of the characters from the genre of biography, based on the typology of a person’s heroic deeds: a hero of labor (a cultural hero), a hero-warrior, a political figure and a hero-victim. The features of the literary canon representation in modern Russian cinematography are associated with the actualization of two types of heroes: a cultural hero and a hero-warrior. The article indicates a new semantic paradigm of the Soviet literary canon representation, determined by the life phases of the formation and existence of the literary canon in the history of literature, as well as the transition from literary-centricity to visual culture.