Aspects of the Philological Study of V.P. Nekrasov’s Novella “In the Trenches of Stalingrad”

The article studies the ways of philological interpretation of V.P. Nekrasov’s novel “In the Trenches of Stalingrad”, which was published in the magazine “Znamya” in 1946. In 1947, the author was awarded the Stalin Prize of the second degree. In 1976, this and other works by the writer were removed from all libraries in the Soviet Union. The emigration of the writer and the complete ban of his works in the USSR postponed the scientific study of the text of the story for more than four decades. Modern philological research began in the mid-1990s and is currently being conducted in several directions: literary, linguistic and semiotic. The literary field of research is related to determining the place of the story among small prose genres, with the study of poetics, problematics and chronotope of the story, the writer’s artistic style, the type of psychology, the image of the author and types of narrators, ways and forms of expression of the author’s position, traditions and innovations in military prose, with the comparison of Nekrasov’s story with Russian and foreign precedent military prose. The linguistic direction of research is related to the description of the linguistic expression of the author’s image, the features of vocabulary in the text of the story, its speech composition, types of narration, stylistic techniques and syntactic constructions, types of metatext connections. The semiotic field of research offers an analysis of concepts as structural elements of the semiosphere of the story. Since the early 1990s. Nekrasov’s novel “In the Trenches of Stalingrad” not only returned to its homeland, but also experienced a “rebirth” – its problems, poetics, language, and semiosphere have become an urgent subject of modern philological research.