«The Long 1970s»: village prose writers and the canonization of the Russian literary classics

The article deals with the discursive adaptation of village prose writers (V. Astafiev, V. Shukshin, F. Abramov, S. Zalygin, V. Belov, V. Soloukhin) to the status of the «heirs» of the Russian literary classics. This process was associated with another canonization of the Russian classics of the 19th century carried out in «the long 1970s» in the course of which a significant role was played by the literary critics of the national conservative camp. The specificity of the self-determination of the village prose writers in relation to the classical heritage is conditioned by the marginality of their sociocultural position and by their conflict with the capital’s creative elite, which accompanied their socialization in the urban space.