The cyclic vector of realization of cultural memory in the novel "Chagin" by Evgeny Vodolazkin

Evgeny Vodolazkin has firmly established himself in the latest Russian prose as a master of the realization of artistic intrigue. His novels are a vivid confirmation of this. The writer, in addition to forming a very dense intriguing plot, adding a figurative series, manifesting a point of view, deliberately uses the technique of artistic collision, but in an admittedly realistic way. For Evgeny Vodolazkin, the course of novel events is not only a literal combination of situational episodes, it is also a carefully thought-out dialogue with the reader. The subject of the research in the article is the deciphering of the theme of memory on the example of E.G. Vodolazkin's novel "Chagin". The object of study correlates with the main issue of the text, which builds a narrative, a figurative series, a genre structure. The purpose of the work is a parametric analysis of the manifestation of cultural memory in the specified text. The assessment of the imaginative thinking of the main character, Isidor Chagin, is not excluded in the study, since memory cannot be considered separately from the feeling and perception of reality by the character. The methodological basis of the work is focused on the comparative principles of text evaluation, conceptual verification of the work, taking into account the systematization of receptive connotations. In the novel "Chagin", the main character is going through a crisis state – he cannot forget what he has read, seen, and experienced. Memory is syncretically soldered to the existence of the hero as such, it ontologically sets the metaphysics of the character's existence. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the fact that the novel has not yet been practically studied within the framework of this category, there is no proper assessment of the topic in the critical-analytical type mode. The materials can be useful practically in verifying the style, manner of writing, and artistic thinking of Evgeny Vodolazkin. The conclusions of the work are focused on the fact that memory in the novel "Chagin" is a formula of irreversibility. But the actions and deeds of the hero are in many ways a demonstration of multiplicity. Although Vodolazkin's writing style and poetics do not gravitate towards postmodernism, the influence of modern trends is clearly evident in this work. The plot of the novel is not accidental, the figure of the main character is composed in a special way, but the context itself, clearly expanding, has a multiplicity of excuses. Cultural memory is cyclically oriented, for Evgeny Vodolazkin it is an impulse to destabilize meanings, because it is an ontological task of artistic creation.