I. YAKOVLEV CHUVASH STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN

S. Dovlatov, main character of S. Dovlatov, principle of the third way, self-association of the reader, cultural signs, image of the universe

The character of Dovlatov’s prose is in constant ontological “hanging in a paradox” between parts of a multitude of personal oppositions. This paper considers his intermediate position between the status of an erudite and thinking person and a poorly educated person. The material of the study was the manifestation of a conscious method, which consists in the introduction by the author into his texts, regardless of the periods and genres of creativity, voluntary or involuntary errors against the facts of reality in order to increase the intellectual and spiritual status of the character in the perception of the reader. The study used structural-descriptive, descriptive-functional and interpretive methods.

The task of the work was to group and classify numerous examples of unreliable and erroneous messages from the texts of S. Dovlatov, which have not yet become the subject of attention in Dovlatov studies.

In the course of the work, the conclusions were drawn about the conscious formation by the author of an overestimated idea of the character in his prose as a person of a deeply thinking and broadly educated person, which does not always correspond to reality.

Савельзон Игорь Вильямович – кандидат филологических наук, доцент кафедры литературы, журналистики и методики преподавания литературы Оренбургского государственного педагогического университета, г. Оренбург, Россия, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2815-6640, merkaztarbut@mail.ru