of the Novel of Vsevolod Ivanov «Ilyich Avenue»
Ivanov’s work “Ilyich Avenue”, as a work “returned”, is examined in the context of the
ideological and aesthetic closeness of his book “The Secret Secrets”, also recently introduced into
scientific circulation. The military theme, the plot of opposition to the enemy allows the main
substantive and constructive principle of the book of Vs. Ivanov’s stories through a combination
of real and “secret” to function in the novel at the intertextual level, echoing the works of classics
and contemporaries of the writer. The closeness of the novel to the military works of L. Tolstoy
and A. Platonov, as well as similarities with the construction of the novel by B. Pasternak “Doctor
Zhivago”, are found. The principle of “estrangement”, evident in depicting the realities of the life
of the city and the factory, heroes and their actions, with the tangible presence of the Siberian-
“eastern” “material”, extends to the plot of the novel “Ilyich Avenue”. Analysis of some
storylines related to the main characters’ relations: the scene of acquaintance, forays into the
camp of the Nazis, the defense of the Palace of Culture, etc., reveals the use of the “error”
technique known in the literature, as well as “recognition / non-recognition” in the aspect of
poetics “secrets” and “mystery novel”. Subsequently, he entered the recordings of Vs. Ivanov on
the theory of literature. The presence of these signs is confirmed by comparison with the novel by
B. Pasternak “Doctor Zhivago”, which also contains “enigmatic intrigue”, which serves as an
important structural principle of this work. For the novel “Ilyich Avenue”, these features, organic
in relation to the work of B. Pasternak, are in complex relations with the content side, entering
into a certain discord with the theme of war and the author’s anti-war pathos. This was reflected
in the apparent incompleteness of the novel, submitted undated edition of the text. At the same
time, such “incompleteness” is one of the leading signs of Ivanov’s creativity in general, which
emanated from the poetics of the “secret secrets”, suggesting an understatement. The succession
of the novel “Ilyich Avenue” the main book of the writer of the mid-20s it is proved, therefore, in
the aspect of the plot organization of this novel.
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