New realism as an attempt to overcome the myth-poetics of traditionalism. Valentin Rasputin and Roman Senchin

The research task of this article is to conduct a comparative analysis of the novels of Valentin Rasputin and the Roman Senchin’s novel “The Flood Zone”. Both writers differ from each other not only in life, generational experience, but above all in a different aesthetic approach to creativity. In his novel, Senchin attempts to overcome the mythopoetic, traditionalist perception of the world characteristic of Rasputin’s work. Appealing to the creativity of the classic writer, the modern author offers another, subordinated to the artistic principles of “new realism”, a way to describe reality, seeks to debunk the mythologies that have become the Foundation of Rasputin’s prose. The analysis carried out in the article allows us to put the thesis that the creative idea of Senchin is hardly successful, but at the same time it completely fits into the eternal dispute between the “traditional” and “new” in art.