The paper deals with the study of crisis intercharacter communication by means
of evocational methods in the latest stories by V. M. Shukshin. The evocational method is considered as the way of transforming an evocation object into an evocation product. Study is made of the following evocational methods permitting the reader to determine the crisis potential of «fisticuffs»: uncomplimentary nomination, generalization, interruption of speech, and displacement. The evocational methods in the stories by V. M. Shukshin have the following characteristics: firstly, they are generated by Shukshin’s aesthetics (reflections on the category of kindness, revelation of the truth of time through a character, depiction of a «vivid personality», and study of a human soul); secondly, the mentioned methods represent different aspects of «fisticuffs» such as lack of kindness, communicative polarization of characters, forcible denying of another person’s right to speak, and disoptimization of characters’ intercommunication.