Th e concept of human image in the artistic heritage of A.A. Zinoviev

The work analyzes the concepts of human representation in the art trilogy of A.A. Zinoviev. The specific genre features of his novels are described, which dictate a new form of representation of a person completely impersonal and stereotyped. The supra-individual nature of his characters is emphasized, which are generally represented by three varieties: ibans, homos, postmen, each of which has its own extreme poles. Specific techniques have been identified that distinguish the novel heroes of the artistic space A.A. Zinoviev: the heroes of the trilogy are compared with the options for representing the character in a classic novel, on the basis of which specific artistic techniques of the image are distinguished, characteristic only of the sociological novels of A.A. Zinoviev. The conclusions obtained as a result of the analysis of typed heroes of the art trilogy allow us to talk about the creation of a new genre of the novel — sociological, in which the concept of human representation undergoes deep author's processing, as a result, the hero is not interesting as a person, but as the embodiment of a particular idea, and conditional impersonal heroes represent a world without conventions, in all its potential possibilities, this is the phenomenon of A.A. Zinoviev, which turned the conditional form of the novel into a statistically life-like diagnostic social sentence to modern society.