Rusanova Marfa Maksimovna – graduate student of the Department of History of Russian Literature of St. Petersburg State University; https://orcid.org/0009-0002-3888-6567
The article analyzes revolutionary time dairies by S. Kablukov and M. Prishvin, two diarists with a similar social status and a social circle. The focus of the work is understudied literary reminiscences in the context of conceptualization of the temporary 1917 “gap”. Following the semiotic tradition by Yu. Lotman and the principles of reader-response criticism, the article determines reflection strategies on the historical past and the present given in the concrete everyday experience through literary reminiscences. It is found out that in both cases literature plays the role of one of the cultural languages as well as a collapsed socio-political project. The second function led to the revaluation of the role of literature for social life. Kablukov idealizes the past with changing his attitude to the present through literature. Prishvin finds the equivalence in the structures of the successive epochs; he values the categories of individuality and present moment.
revolutionary time; time gap conceptualization; egodocuments; cultural language; function of literature