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Yana Z. Grishina
Yana Z. Grishina, Head of Department, House-Museum of M.M. Prishvin, State Museum of the History of Russian Literature named after V.I. Dahl, Moscow region, Odintsovo district, Dunino village 2, 143032 Moscow, Russia.
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Abstract:
The article examines Mikhail Prishvin’s diary of 1930–1931 — the years that became a turning point in his fate as a writer. At that time, he was heavily criticized together with his fellow writers. So he is not only showing in the diary his way to resist this critique (leaving “Pereval”) but also the deeper and not at first evident reasons for divergence from the official ideology as well as from the one of “Pereval.” Prishvin sees the archetype of uncompromising confrontation in the depths of Russian culture and leaves only one way out for himself — creative work. In particular, it resulted in the story “Ginseng,” written after his trip to the Far East in 1931.