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The article discusses the meaning of the concept “tradition” in the paradigm of self-determination of national literature and its correlation with modernity. The problem of implicit complementarity of tradition and modernity, repetition and renewal is one of the most important constants of the socio-cultural self-organization of society and culture. The attitude towards tradition as permanent nostalgic traditionalism and selfsufficient retrospectiveness seems insufficient. The proposed dynamic model is focused on a holistic approach: the substantial significance of tradition, which embodies ethnouniqueness, intergenerational communication and the historical and cultural subjectivity of the people, is conceptually connected with its processuality and predisposition to creative prolongation. The growing complexity of the relationship of local national cultures with the growing progressivism and its readiness to throw off “outdated” value priorities from the “steamer of modernity” brings debatable sharpness and reinforces the idea of the fatal incompatibility of tradition and modernity. The “reading” of the existential meaning of tradition with the greatest expressiveness and responsiveness was manifested in its literary and artistic reconstruction. Based on the prose material of V. Rasputin and F. Iskander, representing different cultural traditions, the conditionality of tension between the basic values and the challenges of modernity is traced. Literature is sensitive to the dichotomy of “old-new,” “continuity-break,” gravitating not so much to the aggravation of the conflict of values and confrontational logic, but to the positive synchronization of dissonant states and the justification of the symbolic capital of tradition as a form of continuous collective memory. As part of the artistic actualization of the complementarity of the constant and the changeable, tradition is revealed as an organic prerequisite for the national model of modernization.