Поэтика вечности в «Утиной охоте» А. Вампилова и «Последнем сроке» В. Распутина
Poetics of Eternity in “Duck Hunting” by Alexander Vampilov and “The Last Term” by Valentin Rasputin

Summary/Abstract: “Duck Hunting” by A. Vampilov and “The Last Term” by V. Rasputin were written in the same place — in hotels in Angarsk, Irkutsk region — at the same time, during joint trips of beginning writers over several years in the late 1960s. The shared creative chronotope of the play and the novella allows us to correlate both works, despite the difference in their nature — drama and prose. For the first time, the article identifies parallels at the level of the plot-forming motif of memory, the motif of the last term, artistic topos and time, images of the main characters, the image of the window, and the landscape-portrait. It is shown that the plot of the novella “The Last Term” is present in the play “Duck Hunting” in a compressed form (the episode with Zilov’s father’s letter). The motifs of memory and the last term are revealed in the aspect of the Orthodox worldview traditional for Russian culture as a form of confession and standing before eternity. The compression of artistic time and space in both authors serves not as a compositional device, but as a way of transforming everyday life (byt) into authentic existence (bytie). The unity of poetics in V. Rasputin’s novella and A. Vampilov’s play is determined not only by the creative chronotope, but also by the unity of cultural memory in the artistic consciousness of the two writers, who were friends.

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